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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

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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Bronson Alcott
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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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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