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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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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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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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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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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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