Author: Amos Bronson Alcott

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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

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 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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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