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"30 Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 29 November 1799. Died: 4 March 1888 | Teacher | Writer | Philosopher | Reformer |

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Debate Masculine Conversion Feminine
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success Sweet Long Struggles
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

First Man Yourself Inspire
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

We Heaven Ruins Failures
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Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
Success Sweet Long Delayed
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

Love Key Heaven Enter
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Time is the best critic.

Time Best Critic
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Ignorant One Malady
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Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.

Who Knows Mind Key
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Dogma Embodies Shade Truth
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

None Teach Admirably Loving
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Noble Life Revelation Spirit
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"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Stay Charming Word Friend
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Good Book Opened Expectation
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

One's Life Intresting Entertainment
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Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Manners Mantle Minds
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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.

Time Life Seasons Perfect
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

Passions Organized Hostile Freedom
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Education Inclusive Introspective Populations
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Cities Advantages Hostile Liberal
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

Man Society Lovingly Revenge
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

Happy Childhood Pledge Ripe
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Truth Virtues Older Schools
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Anger Resentment Animal Blood
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

Whatsoever Currents Flowing Directions
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

Find Past Present Forecast
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in man, and finds the readiest response.

Who Speaks Instincts Man
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

Despair Sun Firmament
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

Author Reader Depths Thoughts
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

Pity Mother Name Implies
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Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes & Sayings