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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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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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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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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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