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

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  Games, Names, Blood

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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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• 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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• Every sin provokes its punishment.

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  Punishment, Sin, Provoking

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood.

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  Race, Brotherhood, Mind

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• Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence.

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  Home, Heart, Perspective

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

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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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  Eye, Men, Dragons

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

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