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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

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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Bronson Alcott
Heart
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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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 true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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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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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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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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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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