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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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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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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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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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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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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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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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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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