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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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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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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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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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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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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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