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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
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Bronson Alcott
Abandonment
Surrender
Conversation
Persons
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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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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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
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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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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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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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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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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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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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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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