“Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.”
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Famous Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
Source: Table-talk
Source: Tablets
Source: Tablets
“A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.”
Source: Tablets
“Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.”
Source: Table-talk
“Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.”
Source: Concord Days
“Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.”
Source: Concord Days
“Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.”
Source: Concord Days
“I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.”
Source: Tablets
“Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.”
Source: Table-talk
“A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.”
“Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.”
“Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.”
Source: Table-talk
Source: Table-talk
“Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.”
Source: Tablets
“Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.”
Source: Table-talk
Source: Tablets
“Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.”
Source: Concord Days
“Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.”
Source: Conversations with Children on the Gospels
“The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.”
Source: Table-talk
Source: Concord Days
“Inspiration must find answering inspiration.”
Source: Table-talk
Source: Table-talk
“Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.”
Source: Tablets
Source: Tablets
“Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.”
Source: Tablets
Source: Concord Days
Source: Tablets
Source: Tablets
“The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.”
Source: Table-talk
Source: Tablets
“Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.”
“Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.”
Source: Table-talk
Source: Table-talk
“Every sin provokes its punishment.”
Source: Table-talk
“One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.”
Source: Concord Days
Source: Concord Days
Source: Concord Days
Source: Table-talk
“Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.”
Source: Table-talk
“One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.”
Source: Table-talk
“Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.”
Source: Table-talk
“The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.”