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

Amos Bronson Alcott

Arguing, Converses

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

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Humor, Deep Thought, Lessons

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The less routine the more life.

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Life, Routine, Life Changing

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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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

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Ignorance, Stupidity, Innocence

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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

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Time, Teaching, Silence

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

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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

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Childhood, Pledge, Ripe

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

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

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Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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

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Funny, Book, Reading

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Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

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Truth, Jealous, Sensitive

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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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

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Giving, Shade, Dogma

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

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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

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Debate, Feminine, Conversation

Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.77

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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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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

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Women, Implied, Ifs

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

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

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Inspirational, Humorous, Ignorance

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

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

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Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

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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 is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

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Lying, Men, Desert

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