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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
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Bronson Alcott
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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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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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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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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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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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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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
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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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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
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A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
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