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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
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Bronson Alcott
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Imagination
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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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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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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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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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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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