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

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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Bronson Alcott
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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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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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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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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