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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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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Bronson Alcott
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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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