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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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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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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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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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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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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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