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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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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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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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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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