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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Head
Alone
Best
Heart
Divines
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Divine

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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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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.
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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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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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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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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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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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