Author: Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

The less routine the more life.

The less routine the more life.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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