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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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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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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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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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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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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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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.
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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 sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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