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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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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
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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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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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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.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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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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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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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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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
Amos Bronson Alcott
