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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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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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