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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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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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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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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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