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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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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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The less routine the more life.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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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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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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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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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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