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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
Life
Creeds
Diverse
Religion
Many

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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 best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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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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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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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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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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