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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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“The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.”
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“Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.”
“Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.”
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“Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history”
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“I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.”
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“Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.”
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“One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.”
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“Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!”
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“A chaste generation would restore Paradise.”
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“An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.”
Source: The journals of Bronson Alcott
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“Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.”
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“Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.”
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“A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.”
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“A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.”
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“Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.”
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