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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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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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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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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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