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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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