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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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