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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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The less routine the more life.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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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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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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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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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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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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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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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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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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