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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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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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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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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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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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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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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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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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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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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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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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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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