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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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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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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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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