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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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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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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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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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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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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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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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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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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