Amos Bronson Alcott ( 10 of 21 )
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
The less routine the more life.
The less routine the more life.
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from
exclusiveness and egotism.
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from
exclusiveness and egotism.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself read more
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
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Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their
rudeness,
Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.
