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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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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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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.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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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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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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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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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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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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