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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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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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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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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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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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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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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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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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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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