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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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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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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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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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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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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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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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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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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