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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Success]
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Success]
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Sympathy]
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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 - [Teachers and Teaching]
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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.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Thoughts and Thinking]
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Persuasion]
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Learning]
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Mothers]
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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.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Family]
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Government]
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Ignorance]
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Dreams]
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Age and Aging]
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