AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT QUOTES
American writer & Philosopher (1799-1888)
A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.
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Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!
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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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"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
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Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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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.
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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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Time is the best critic.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
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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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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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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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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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