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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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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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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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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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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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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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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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