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Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott (/???lk?t, -k?t/; November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a vegan diet before the term was coined. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights

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

The less routine the more life.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Our ideals are our better selves.

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

Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the he ...

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible thi ...

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written ...

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring ...

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contri ...

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