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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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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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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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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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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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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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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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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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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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