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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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Bronson Alcott
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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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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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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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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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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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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