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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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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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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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