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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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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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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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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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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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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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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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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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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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