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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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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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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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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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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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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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