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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
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Head
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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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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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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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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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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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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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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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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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A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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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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