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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
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Bronson Alcott
Routine
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Life

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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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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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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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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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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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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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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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