A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. - Amos Bronson Alcott

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If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

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

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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?

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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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