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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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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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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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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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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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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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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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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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