AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT QUOTES IV

American writer & Philosopher (1799-1888)

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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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

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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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Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well.

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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

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