Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Giving, Shade, Dogma

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

• A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Evil, Giving, Economy

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

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Sympathy, Light, Giving

• What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Giving, Prejudice

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.31

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