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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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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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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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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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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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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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