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Amos Bronson Alcott
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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
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
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
Amos Bronson Alcott
As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
Amos Bronson Alcott
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
Amos Bronson Alcott
