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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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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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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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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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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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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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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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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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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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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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