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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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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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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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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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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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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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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