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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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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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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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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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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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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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