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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
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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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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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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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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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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