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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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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 more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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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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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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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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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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