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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
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Bronson Alcott
Keys
Science
Mind
Things
Besides
Psychology

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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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