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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

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
Tasks
Head
Hands
Ideas
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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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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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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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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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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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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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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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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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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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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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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