Quotes of Amos Bronson Alcott - somelinesforyou

“ Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ ‘Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ The surest sign of age is loneliness. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us… ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us… ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott
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