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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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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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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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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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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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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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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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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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