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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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 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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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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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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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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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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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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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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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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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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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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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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