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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
— 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
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
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
— 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
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
The less routine the more life.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Easy come, easy go ... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical
— Amos Bronson Alcott
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse
— 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
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Nature is thought immersed in matter ...
— Amos Bronson Alcott
The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..
— Amos Bronson Alcott
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Opposition strengthens the manly will.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Our ideals are our better selves.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
A good style fits like a good costume.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not by my weakness.
— 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
Every sin provokes its punishment.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
— 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
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Many can argue - not many converse.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
— 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
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
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Genius
the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being. — Amos Bronson Alcott
the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
— 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
The less of routine, the more of life.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
— 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
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
— 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
a bitter jest Upon himself
a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
— Amos Bronson Alcott