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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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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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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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