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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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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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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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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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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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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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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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