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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan		Thursday Apr 02, 2026
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Amos Bronson Alcott

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	Amos Bronson Alcott
	Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 - March 4, 1888) was an American teacher and writer. He is remembered for founding a short-lived and unconventional school as well as a utopian community known as "Fruitlands", and for his association with Transcendentalism. Read More

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

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

The traveled mind is the universal mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

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.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Our ideals are our better selves.

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

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

The less routine the more life.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

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

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

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Thinking makes the man.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense.

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