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Amos Bronson Alcott
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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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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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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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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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
Amos Bronson Alcott
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
Amos Bronson Alcott
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Labor humanizes, exalts.
Amos Bronson Alcott
