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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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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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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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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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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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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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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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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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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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