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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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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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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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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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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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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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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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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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