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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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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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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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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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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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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 books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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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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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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