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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

— Amos Bronson Alcott Concord Days (1872)

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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

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Genius is but the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

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