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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

Louisa May Alcott

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.

Amos Bronson Alcott

My occupation is solely that of a painter. No one can argue with pictures (re descriptions in Uncle Tom's Cabin).

Louisa Mae Alcott

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