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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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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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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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