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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
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Bronson Alcott
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
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Many can argue - not many converse.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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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 traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading and the less reading is better than more--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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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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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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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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Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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