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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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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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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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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The less routine the more life.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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