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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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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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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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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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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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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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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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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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