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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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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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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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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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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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