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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
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Bronson Alcott
Diverse
Religion
Many
Life
Creeds

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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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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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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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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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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 friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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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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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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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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