Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes - Page 6

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• Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.

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  Angel, Gay, Sight

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• The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.

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  Philosophy, Spring, Feet

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

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• The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

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  Cost, Littles, Virtue

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• Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

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  Ideas, Surrender, Abandonment

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

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• In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

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  Disappointment, Long, Might

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

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• A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

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  Delight, Mortals

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• The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

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  Men, Mind, World

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

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• Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

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  Play, Genius, Faculty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1836). “Conversations with Children on the Gospels”, p.39

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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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  Evil, Giving, Economy

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

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• A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

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  Spirit, Candid, Dogmatism

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

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• Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

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  Evil, Soul, Liberty

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

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• Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

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  Cities, Sides, Seduction

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

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• Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

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  Sleep, Heaven, Lamps

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

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• Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

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  Government, Empires, Royal

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• The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Views

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• The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

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  Travel, Catholic, Mind

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

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• Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

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  Friendship, Clouds, Sun

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.127

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• The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

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  Ignorance, Sound, Depth

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

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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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  Book, Personality, Portraits

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.133

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• A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

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  Book, Age, Eras

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

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• Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

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  Philosophy, Orbit, Momentum

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

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• Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

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  Expression, Study, Grammar

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.122

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• One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

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  Book, Character, Lovers

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

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• Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

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  Book, Experience, Failing

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

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• Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

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  Science, Keys, Psychology

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