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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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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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