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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

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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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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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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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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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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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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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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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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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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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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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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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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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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