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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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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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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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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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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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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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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The less routine the more life.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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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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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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