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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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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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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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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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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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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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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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