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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
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Divines
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Head
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Heart

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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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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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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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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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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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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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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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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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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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