Top 100 Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
#1. The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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#2. The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
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#5. If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them
structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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#7. Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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#9. Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
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#10. A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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#12. A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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#13. Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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#16. Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
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#17. Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
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#19. One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;
book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.
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#20. Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
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#21. The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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#23. Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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#25. 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.
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#26. Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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#28. I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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#29. 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.
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#30. Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
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#31. Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
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#32. Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
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#36. Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
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#38. Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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#39. Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
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#40. An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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#42. Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
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#45. One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
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#46. Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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#47. Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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#50. While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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#52. The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
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#53. Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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#55. Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
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#57. 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.
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#59. Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
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#61. Genius
the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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#62. A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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#65. Easy come, easy go ... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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#67. Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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#68. 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.
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#72. There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
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#73. 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.
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#74. Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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#75. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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#76. Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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#78. Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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#79. 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.
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#80. Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
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#81. All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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#83. Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
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#85. When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
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#86. Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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#89. 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?
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#92. Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
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#93. Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
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#94. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
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#96. As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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#98. Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.
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#99. Man is a living lie
a bitter jest Upon himself
a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
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#100. Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
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