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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.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Book Personality Portrait
The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Library Mind Need
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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Anarchy Mob Passion Rule
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them — structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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Building House Idea Plato
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Agitation Answer Empty Vessel
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Fall Government Mind Own Business
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Heart Pursuit
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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Charity School Truth
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Currency Dogma Give Shade
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Clouds Friendship Sun
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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Flower Modesty Virtue
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Education Inspirational Teacher
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

Implication Ray Truth Veil
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Age Time Year
One’s outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Outlook Part Virtue
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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Appreciation Real Work

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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