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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
Teacher
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Bronson Alcott
Abandonment
Surrender
Conversation
Persons
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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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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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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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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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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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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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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