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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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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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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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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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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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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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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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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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