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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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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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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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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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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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