American writer & Philosopher (1799-1888)
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.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
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A government for protecting the coarser interests of the body, business and bread only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption to decay.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
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Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
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