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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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 head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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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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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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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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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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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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