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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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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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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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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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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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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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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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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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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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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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