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• A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Birthday, Old Habits, Clothes

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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.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Suicide, Men, Decision

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• Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

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  Dignity, Force, Reserved

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• Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

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  Agreement, Differences, Conversation

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.74

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• Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Strength, Sympathy, Teaching

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

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  Future, Past, Forecasts

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• Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

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  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

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• Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

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  Names, Purity, Moderation

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

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  Garden, Eden, Desire

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

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  Women, Implied, Ifs

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

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  Funny, Book, Reading

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• Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

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  Life, Real, Mean

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• To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

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  Inspirational, Humorous, Ignorance

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Debate, Feminine, Conversation

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.77

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• Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Footprint, Prudence

  "Orphic Sayings: XXVIII. Prudence". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. July 1840.

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• Opposition strengthens the manly will.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Opposition, Manly

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• Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

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  Heartless, Mythology

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

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  Order, Civilization, Degrade

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• Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

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  Mom, Mother, Home

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• All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

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  Struggle, Soul, Unrest

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• Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

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  Revenge, Real, Men

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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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  Truth, School, Charity

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

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  Country, Garden, Cities

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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• One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

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  Inspiring, Wise, Reader

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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