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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
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Snuff
Firmament
Despair
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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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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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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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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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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