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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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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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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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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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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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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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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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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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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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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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