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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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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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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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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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