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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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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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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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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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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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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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