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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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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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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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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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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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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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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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