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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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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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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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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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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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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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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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