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• One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Virtue, Outlook

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• Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Love, Keys, Heaven

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• Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Despair, Sun, Snuff

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

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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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  Country, Mother, Bird

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• First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

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  Inspiration, Men, Discovery

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

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• A work of real merit finds favor at last.

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  Appreciation, Real, Work

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

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• Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Family, Children, Home

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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.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Plato, Building Houses, Ideas

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

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• The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all times.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Inspiration, Names

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

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• Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heaven, Thrones, Done

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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.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heart, Self, Mind

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

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• Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Self, Mind, Modesty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

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• One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heart, Enthusiasm, Pursuit

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

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• An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Depth, Reader

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1938). “The journals of Bronson Alcott”

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• None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Teaching, Tasks, Teach

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

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• One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

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  Book, Long, Choices

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.5

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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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  Wise, Book, Reading

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.131

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• Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Genius, May

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

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• Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

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  Nature, Matter

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.176

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• A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Views, Court

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.91

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• Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

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  Essence, Cups, Pleasure

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

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• Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

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  Hands, Ideas, Tasks

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

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• The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

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  Running, Pain, Delight

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.75

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• Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

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  Love, Garden, Eden

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• Every sin provokes its punishment.

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  Punishment, Sin, Provoking

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

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