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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
Philosopher
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Bronson Alcott
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Distinctly
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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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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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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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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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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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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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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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