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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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