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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

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 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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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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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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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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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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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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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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