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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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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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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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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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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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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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