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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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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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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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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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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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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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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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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