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Amos Bronson Alcott

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate is masculine conversation is feminine.
Amos Bronson Alcott
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate is angular conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Success is sweet the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amos Bronson Alcott
There is virtue in country houses in gardens and orchards in fields streams and groves in rustic recreations and plain manners that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Without a mythology faith is impersonal and heartless.
Amos Bronson Alcott
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott
None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
Amos Bronson Alcott
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Amos Bronson Alcott
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Opposition strengthens the manly will.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Amos Bronson Alcott
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Equanimity is the gem in virtues chaplet and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
Amos Bronson Alcott
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott

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