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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
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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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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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