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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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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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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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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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