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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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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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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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