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• First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspiration, Men, Discovery

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all times.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Inspiration, Names

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Family, Children, Home

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• Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inheritance, Belief, Creeds

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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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.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Plato, Building Houses, Ideas

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heaven, Thrones, Done

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• Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Self, Mind, Modesty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

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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.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heart, Self, Mind

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

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• One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heart, Enthusiasm, Pursuit

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Depth, Reader

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1938). “The journals of Bronson Alcott”

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• None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Teaching, Tasks, Teach

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Long, Choices

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.5

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• Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Genius, May

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

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  Nature, Matter

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.176

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• Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Love, Garden, Eden

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• A good style fits like a good costume.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Style, Costumes, Fit

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• Labor humanizes, exalts.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Labor

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Beautiful, Book, Becoming

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• Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Intuition, Criminal Mind, Speak

  "Fictional character: Aaron Hotchner". "Criminal Minds". Season 4, Episode 6: "The Instincts", www.imdb.com. November 05, 2008.

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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.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Wise, Reading, Book

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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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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  Flower, Modesty, Virtue

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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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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  Eye, Titles, Deeds

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.13

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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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  Country, Country Life, Born

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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• The richest minds need not large libraries.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Mind, Library, Needs

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Truth, Jealous, Sensitive

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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