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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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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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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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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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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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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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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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