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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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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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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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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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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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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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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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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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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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