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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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The less routine the more life.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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