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Amos Bronson Alcott
American
Educator
About the author
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Success
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Observation
#Experience
#Books
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Dreams
#Senses
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#World
#Friends
Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Ideals
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Will
#Man
#First
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Strength
#Weakness
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Expectation
#Profit
#Delight
The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Life
#Routine
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,
American
Educator
#Life
#Thinking
#Thought
#Man
#Sense
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Ignorance
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Heart
#Old
#Age
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Heaven
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Home
#Mother
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Years
#May
#Old
#Company
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Mind
#Key
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Mankind
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,
American
Educator
#Children
#Family
#Society
#Paradise
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Students
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Government
#Business
#Corruption
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,
American
Educator
#Will
#Influence
#Spirit
#Self
#Eyes
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Amos Bronson Alcott,
American
Educator
#Conversation
#Debate