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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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 head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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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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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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