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Many can argue - not many converse.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
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Teacher
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Bronson Alcott
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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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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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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