First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Men, Will, Find, Manliness
Our ideals are our better selves.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Inspirational, Better, Selves
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Teacher, Will, Pupils, Guides
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Failure, Climb, Most, Ruins
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Age, Over, Reverent, Kindly
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Book, Good Book, Which, Profit
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate, Feminine, Masculine, Conversation
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Friendship, Take, Tenderly, Interpret
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Wise, Quote, Reader, Wisely
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Mind, Things, Besides, All Things
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Communication, Mankind, Instincts
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Success, Through, Sweeter, Defeats
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Strength, Me, Weakness, Strengthen
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
Perfect, Center, Embraces, Animate
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Dreams, Sense, Again, Our Dreams
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Teacher, Against, His, Defends
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Government, Protecting, Corruption
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Age, Old, May, Pursuits
The less routine the more life.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Life, Routine, More, Less
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
Thought, Think, Means, Real Sense
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Ignorance, Malady, Ignorant
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Mother, Home, Go, Matters
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Education, Prime, Persons, Observation
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