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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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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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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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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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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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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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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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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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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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