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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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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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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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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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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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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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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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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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