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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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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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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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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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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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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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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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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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