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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
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
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Life
Creeds
Diverse
Religion

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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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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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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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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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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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