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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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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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The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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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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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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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 check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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