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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
A government for protecting the coarser interests of the body, business and bread only, is but a carcass, and soon falls, by its own corruption, to decay (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
The surest sign of age is loneliness. While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot be old, whatever his years may be (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne? (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Agriculture, for an honorable and high - minded man, says Xenophon, is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Our notion of the perfect society embrace's the family as its center and ornament. Nor is there a paradise planted until the children appear in the foreground, to animate and complete the picture (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters? (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams, and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is won't to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears (Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes)