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Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our

Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Home, Heart, Perspective
Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Calendars, Virtue, Equanimity
Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.64

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

Amos Bronson Alcott
Expression, Study, Grammar
Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.122

Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Hands, Ideas, Issues

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Real, Needs, World
Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Race, Brotherhood, Mind

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