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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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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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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.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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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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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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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
Amos Bronson Alcott
As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
Amos Bronson Alcott
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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