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Our ideals are our better selves.
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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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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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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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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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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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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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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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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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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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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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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