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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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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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.
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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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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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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.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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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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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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