Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Friendship, Friends, Ourselves

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Government, Business, Corruption

Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Inspirational, Ideals, Selves

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Ignorance, Ignorant, Malady

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Teacher, True, Personal

The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Life, Less, Routine

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Age, Heart, Old

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Mom, Home, Mother

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Debate, Feminine, Masculine

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Failure, Often, Heaven

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Strength, Weakness, Strengthen

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Success, Long, Through

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

Teacher, True, Him

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Mankind, Deepest, Instincts

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Yourself, Find, Others

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Wise, Reader, Wisely

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Dreams, Again, Steps

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

Family, Society, Children

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Age, May, Cannot

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Experience, Books, Prime

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Good, Book, Profit

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

Life, Live, Real

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Mind, Knows, Key

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: November 29, 1799

Died: March 4, 1888

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