Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Water
Waters
Speak
Fountain
Comes
Opens
Left
Speaks
Nature
Dawn
Like
Lived
Fountains
Mankind
Prospects
Morning
Sunrise
More quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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
The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
Amos Bronson Alcott
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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
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
Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
Amos Bronson Alcott
Many can argue - not many converse.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
Amos Bronson Alcott