| Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. |
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- Amos Bronson Alcott |
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| To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance. |
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- Amos Bronson Alcott |
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| That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. |
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- Amos Bronson Alcott |
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| Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. |
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- Amos Bronson Alcott |
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| 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. |
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- Amos Bronson Alcott |
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