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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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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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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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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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