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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• A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Childhood, Pledge, Ripe

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

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

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  Humor, Deep Thought, Lessons

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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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• Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

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  Ignorance, Stupidity, Innocence

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

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  Arguing, Converses

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.

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  Spiritual, Children, Caring

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

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• Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

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  Empty Vessels, Agitation, Answers

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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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• The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

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  Heart, Divine

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

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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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• Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

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  Inspirational, Book, Analysis

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• Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

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  Sloth, Laziness, Paradise

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

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• Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

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  Unity, Debate, Conversation

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.73

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• Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

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  Memories, Imagination, Horizon

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

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