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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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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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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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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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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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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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