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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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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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The less routine the more life.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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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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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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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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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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