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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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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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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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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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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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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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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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