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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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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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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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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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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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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