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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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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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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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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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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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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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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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