Alcott, Amos Bronson
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Alcott, Amos Bronson
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Alcott, Amos Bronson
Dreams
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Alcott, Amos Bronson
Conversation
To be ignorant of one s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Ignorance
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Government
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.
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Family
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Friends and Friendship
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Learning
Our ideals are our better selves.
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Ideals and Idealism
The less routine the more life.
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Life and Living
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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Mothers
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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Persuasion
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Sympathy
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.
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Teachers and Teaching
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Quotations
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Success
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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Psychology
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Thoughts and Thinking
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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Success
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Age and Aging
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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Age and Aging
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Analysis
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Books - Reading