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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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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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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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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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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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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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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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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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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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