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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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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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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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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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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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