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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.
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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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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