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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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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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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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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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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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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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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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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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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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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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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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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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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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