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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

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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Bronson Alcott
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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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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
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The less routine the more life.
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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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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
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One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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