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Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

“Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.”

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American writer, philosopher, and educator, born on November 29, 1799, and died on March 4, 1888. Amos Bronson Alcott is known for his contributions to educational reform and the development of individual freedom. more

“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.”

Men Firsts Long Might Youth He Man Becoming Disappointment Seeking Pursuit Enthusiasm Hopeless Quests Suggestions Be A Man Ardor Relinquishing

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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.”

Men World Mind Matter Force Fearful Dominion

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

Humans Virtue Flower Breasts Modesty

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“Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!”

Mother Names Assuming Pity

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“A chaste generation would restore Paradise.”

Generations Paradise Chaste

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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.”

Passion Bases Refuse Organized Anarchy Hostile Personal Freedom Mob Rule

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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.”

Philosophy Philosopher Globes Centre Momentum Orbit Hold Fast

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“An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.”

Reader Depth

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“Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.”

Children Book Character Body Lovely Doctrine Divinity Elders Inviting

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“A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.”

Firsts Wells Children States Spiritual Community Caring Well Being Organized Primitive Providing Eden

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