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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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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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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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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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