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• Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Encouragement, Doing Nothing, Easy

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Life, Interesting, Records

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

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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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• 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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• 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• When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.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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• 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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• A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

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  Men, Views, Court

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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