Author: Amos Bronson Alcott

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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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

The less routine the more life.

The less routine the more life.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our ideals are our better selves.

- 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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