Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Bronson Alcott
Spiritual
Temporal
States
Eden
Wells
Primitive
Firsts
Providing
Well
Caring
First
Organized
Children
State
Community
Amply
More quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Right is the royal ruler alone and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
Amos Bronson Alcott
What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
Amos Bronson Alcott
Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
Amos Bronson Alcott
A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Opposition strengthens the manly will.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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
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
Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
Amos Bronson Alcott
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity and temperance is the regimen for all.
Amos Bronson Alcott