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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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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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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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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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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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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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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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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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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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