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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Bronson Alcott
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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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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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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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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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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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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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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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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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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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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