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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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