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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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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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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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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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