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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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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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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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