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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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author’s mind, without offense (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
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 (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all times (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)