26 Quotations by Amos Bronson Alcott
- 1. A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption a ...

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

- 3. Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

- 4. Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

- 5. Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of ex ...

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

- 7. One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

- 8. Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

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

- 10. Our ideals are our better selves.

- 11. Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise ...

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

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

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

- 15. That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

- 16. That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

- 17. The less routine the more life.

- 18. The surest sign of age is loneliness.

- 19. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. H ...

- 20. Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking ...

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