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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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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
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
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Fullness is always quiet agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
Amos Bronson Alcott
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Many can argue - not many converse.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
Amos Bronson Alcott
