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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.
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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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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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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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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