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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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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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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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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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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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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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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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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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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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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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