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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
Less
Life

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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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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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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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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.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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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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Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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