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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.
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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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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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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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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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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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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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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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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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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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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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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