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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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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
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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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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
Amos Bronson Alcott
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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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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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