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Men Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
- First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
- Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
- Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
- 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.
- Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
- 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,…
- The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
- Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I…
- 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…
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