Amos Bronson Alcott Short Quotes

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I press thee to my heart as Duty's faithful child.

Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

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

Amos Bronson Alcott
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

Amos Bronson Alcott
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

Amos Bronson Alcott
A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

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

Amos Bronson Alcott
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

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

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

Amos Bronson Alcott
Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure.

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

Amos Bronson Alcott
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

Amos Bronson Alcott
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Amos Bronson Alcott
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

Amos Bronson Alcott
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

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

Amos Bronson Alcott
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

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

Amos Bronson Alcott
Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Amos Bronson Alcott