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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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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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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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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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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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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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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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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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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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