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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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Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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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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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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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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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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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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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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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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