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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
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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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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Many can argue - not many converse.
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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.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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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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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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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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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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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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