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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
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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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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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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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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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