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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
Philosopher
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Equanimity
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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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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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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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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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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