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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 speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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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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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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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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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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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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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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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 loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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