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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Life
Creeds
Diverse
Religion
Many

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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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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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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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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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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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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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