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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Giving, Shade, Dogma
Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Sympathy, Light, Giving

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Evil, Giving, Economy
Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

Amos Bronson Alcott
Men, Giving, Prejudice
Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.31

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