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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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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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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 friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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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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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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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.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
Amos Bronson Alcott
