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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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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Many can argue - not many converse.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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