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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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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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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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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The less routine the more life.
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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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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.
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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
Amos Bronson Alcott
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
Amos Bronson Alcott
