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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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 check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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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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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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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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The less routine the more life.
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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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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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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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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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