Amos Bronson Alcott

(449 votes)   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.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(348 votes)   Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(338 votes)   Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(330 votes)   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

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(308 votes)   The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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(304 votes)   Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(304 votes)   Our ideals are our better selves.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(240 votes)   A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(201 votes)   Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(196 votes)   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

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(190 votes)   One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(185 votes)   The less routine the more life.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(175 votes)   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

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(155 votes)   That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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(144 votes)   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

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