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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Genius — the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Amos Bronson Alcott

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people, he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

Amos Bronson Alcott