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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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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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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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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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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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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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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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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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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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