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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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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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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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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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