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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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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
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A good style fits like a good costume.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
Amos Bronson Alcott
The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
Amos Bronson Alcott