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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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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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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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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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