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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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 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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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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