"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Age and Aging
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"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Age and Aging
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"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Dreams
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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."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Family
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Friends and Friendship
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"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Analysis
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"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Government
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"Our ideals are our better selves."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Ideals and Idealism
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Ignorance
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"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Learning
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"The less routine the more life."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Life and Living
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"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Mothers
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"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Persuasion
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"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Psychology
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"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Quotations
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"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Success
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"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Success
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Books - Reading
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"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on 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."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on 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."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Conversation
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