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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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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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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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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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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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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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