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One Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
- To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
- One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
- Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
- One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
- 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.
- One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
- One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new…
- Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader…
- 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…
- One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
- In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future,…
- The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and…
- The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone…
- The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is…
- 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 find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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