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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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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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 man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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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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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
Amos Bronson Alcott
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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?
Amos Bronson Alcott
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
Amos Bronson Alcott
