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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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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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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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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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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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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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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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