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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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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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The less routine the more life.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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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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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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