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Amos Bronson Alcott Inspirational Quotes (150)

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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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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 rare attainment, if possible.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Sleep on your writing take a walk over it scrutinize it of a morning review it of an afternoon digest it after a meal let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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