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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

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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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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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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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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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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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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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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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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