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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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Bronson Alcott
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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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