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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

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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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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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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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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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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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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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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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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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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