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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

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Games, Names, Blood

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An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.

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Character, Ideas, Age

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

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A good style fits like a good costume.

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Style, Costumes, Fit

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Labor humanizes, exalts.

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Labor

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

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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

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Passion, Mob Rule, Anarchy

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

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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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Wise, Reading, Book

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

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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

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Life, Interesting, Records

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

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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

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Country, Country Life, Born

Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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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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Eye, Titles, Deeds

Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.13

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The richest minds need not large libraries.

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Mind, Library, Needs

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

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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

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Flower, Modesty, Virtue

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

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Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

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Genius, Firsts, Pariahs

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

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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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Children, People, May

Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.85

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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

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Book, Delight, Youth

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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

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Travel, Kings, Men

Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.22

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Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

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Morning, Writing, Sleep

Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.51

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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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Friendship, Rest Of Life, Childhood

Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.81

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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

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Mother, Names, Assuming

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

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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

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Thinking, Routine, Spirit

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

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Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

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Morning, Water, Sunrise

Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.62

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Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

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Friends, Leader, Affection

Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.84

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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

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Travel, Eye, Errands

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

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

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Real, Needs, World

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

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Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.

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Book, Heart, Journey

Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”

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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

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Sympathy, Light, Giving

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Born: November 29, 1799
Died: March 4, 1888
Occupation: Writer
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