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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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