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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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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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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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The less routine the more life.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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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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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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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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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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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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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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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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