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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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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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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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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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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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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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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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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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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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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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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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