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The less routine the more life.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Routine
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Life

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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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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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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.
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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
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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 loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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