Author: Amos Bronson Alcott

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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

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

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

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

- 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

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