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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
Philosopher
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Bronson Alcott
Ideas
Abandonment
Surrender
Conversation
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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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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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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