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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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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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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 happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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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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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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