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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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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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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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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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