Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott

American educator and social reformer

Alive from: 1799-1888

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

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

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  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.

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

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  A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

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  Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

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  Many can argue, not many converse.

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

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  Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

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

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  Our ideals are our better selves.

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  Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

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

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

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  The less routine the more life.