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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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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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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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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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