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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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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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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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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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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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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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