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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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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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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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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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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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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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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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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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