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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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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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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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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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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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