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Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes: That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
         

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


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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.



The less routine the more life.

The less routine the more life.



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

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



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

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



Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.



I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.



Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.



A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.



Our ideals are our better selves.

Our ideals are our better selves.



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

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





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