Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

American - Educator | November 29, 1799 - March 4, 1888

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

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The less routine the more life.

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

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SuccessSweetLongThroughStruggles

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

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TeacherEyesInfluenceTruePersonal

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

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MenManYourselfInspireYouFind

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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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

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