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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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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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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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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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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 rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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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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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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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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