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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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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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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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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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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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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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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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