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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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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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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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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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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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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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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.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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