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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
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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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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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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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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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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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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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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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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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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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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