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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

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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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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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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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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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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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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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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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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