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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Footprint
Prudence
Wisdom

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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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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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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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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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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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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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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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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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