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American writer, philosopher, and educator, born on November 29, 1799, and died on March 4, 1888. Amos Bronson Alcott is known for his contributions to educational reform and the development of individual freedom.

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“Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.”

Humans Virtue Flower Breasts Modesty

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.”

Firsts Humans Long Ideas Hands Lasts Values Common Issues Resources Advantage Tasks Common Sense Endeavor Capitalist Multitudes Long Life Idealist Devotee Firsts And Lasts

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.”

Humans Play Human Beings Genius Faculty Harmonious

Book:Conversations with Children on the Gospels

Source: Conversations with Children on the Gospels

“When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.”

People Knows Humans May Children Young Existence Indifference Indifferent Sweetest Human Existence

Book:Concord Days

Source: Concord Days

“Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.”

Giving Humans Light Company Conversation Sacred Sparks Sympathy Atoms Communion Conductor Magnetism

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

About the Author

Born: November 29, 1799
Died: March 4, 1888
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 156

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