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• Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

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  Unity, Debate, Conversation

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.73

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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.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Children, Book, Character

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Suicide, Men, Decision

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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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  Doe

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.49

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• Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

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  Mom, Mother, Home

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• One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

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  Inspiring, Wise, Reader

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

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  Appreciation, Women, Raised

  "Concord Days". Book by Amos Bronson Alcott. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 886-897, 1922.

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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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  Education, Mind, Privilege

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

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  Heartless, Mythology

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

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  Civilization, Degrade

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

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  Truth, School, Charity

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Many can argue - not many converse.

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  Inspirational, Communication, Arguing

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.75

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• While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

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  Time, Years, Age

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• Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

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  Order, Civilization, Degrade

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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.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

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• All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

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  Struggle, Soul, Unrest

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• Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

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  Inheritance, Belief, Creeds

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Tragedy, Comedy

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Inspiration must find answering inspiration.

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  Inspiration

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

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  Anger, Animal, Blood

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• A chaste generation would restore Paradise.

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  Generations, Paradise, Chaste

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

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  Dream, Steps, Our Dreams

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• Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.

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  Life Is, Creeds, Diverse

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.100

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• Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history

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  Childhood, Nursery, Made

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• There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Truth, Rays, Veils

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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