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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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