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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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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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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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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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