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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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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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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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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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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.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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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.
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There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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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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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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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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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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