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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
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Bronson Alcott
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Virtue

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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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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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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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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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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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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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