Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

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"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

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"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."

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"Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams."

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

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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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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."

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"Our ideals are our better selves."

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"The less routine the more life."

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"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."

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"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."

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"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."

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"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples."

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"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."

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