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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.

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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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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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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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