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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
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Bronson Alcott
Abandonment
Surrender
Conversation
Persons
Ideas

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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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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 work of real merit finds favor at last.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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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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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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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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