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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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 be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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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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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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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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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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The less routine the more life.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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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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