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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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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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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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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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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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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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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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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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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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