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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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A good style fits like a good costume.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Labor humanizes, exalts.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
