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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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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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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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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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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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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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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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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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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 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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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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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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Our ideals are our better selves.
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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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