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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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