Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Fall, Government, Mind Your Own Business

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The less routine the more life.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Life, Routine, Life Changing

Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Appreciation, Women, Raised

"Concord Days". Book by Amos Bronson Alcott. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 886-897, 1922.

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Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Humor, Deep Thought, Lessons

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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

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Heartless, Mythology

Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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Our ideals are our better selves.

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Inspirational, Self, Idealism

Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

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Memories, Imagination, Horizon

Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

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Nature, Stars, Ocean

Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.123

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Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse

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Arguing, Converses

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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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Success, Failure, Heaven

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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

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Time, Fall, Apples

Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Amos Bronson Alcott

Ignorance, Stupidity, Innocence

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Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

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Motivational, Real, Charity

Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

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Heart, Divine

Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

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Success, Essentials, Enthusiasm

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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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Spiritual, Children, Caring

Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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

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Friendship, Friends, World

Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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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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Revenge, Real, Men

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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

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Conversation, Converses

Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.76

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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

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Country, Garden, Cities

Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

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Order, Civilization, Degrade

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

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Inspirational, Book, Analysis

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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

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Struggle, Soul, Unrest

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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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Book, Reading, Mind

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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

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Lines, Refuse, Written

Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.157

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Born: November 29, 1799
Died: March 4, 1888
Occupation: Writer
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