Deep thought Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

“Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.”

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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

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“Concord is a classic land. The names of Emerson and Thoreau and Channing and Hawthorne are associated with the fields and forests and lakes…

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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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Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love…

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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion,…

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“Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.”

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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 sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”

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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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I don't understand people who say life is a mystery, because what is it they want to know?

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