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| That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| The surest sign of age is loneliness. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its centre and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
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| Our ideals are our better selves. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| The less routine the more life. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
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| The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
