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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 must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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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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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.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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