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Amos Bronson Alcott Inspirational Quotes (150)

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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The less routine the more life.
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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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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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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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