Amos Alcott Quotes
22 Amos Alcott quotes:
"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
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"Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators."
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"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
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"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
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"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."
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"Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression"
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"The less routine the more life."
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"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
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"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
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"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence."
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
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"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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"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."
American Educator Quotes
Students Quotes
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
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"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
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"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."
Mind Quotes
Psychology Quotes
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"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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"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
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"Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few"
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"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
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