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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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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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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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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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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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