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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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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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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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