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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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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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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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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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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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