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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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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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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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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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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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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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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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Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
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Our favorites are few since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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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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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
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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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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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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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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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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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