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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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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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