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Amos Bronson Alcott

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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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


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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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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


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The Alcott family put The Hillside up for rent and moved to Boston. Emerson wrote to Margaret Fuller then editor that they might "pass muster & even pass for just & great". He reflected that the event was a prophecy that he would be "tilting at the sun and always catching the fall.

Based on his ideas for human perfection Alcott founded Fruitlands a transcendentalist experiment in community living. His innovative methods however were controversial and he rarely stayed in one place very long. Nevertheless he continued focusing on educational projects and opened a new school at the end of his life in 1879.

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