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By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. Yukio Mishima		Friday Jul 10, 2026
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About Amos Bronson Alcott

	Amos Bronson Alcott
	Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 - March 4, 1888) was an American teacher and writer. He is remembered for founding a short-lived and unconventional school as well as a utopian community known as "Fruitlands", and for his association with Transcendentalism. Read More

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

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense.

Thinking makes the man.

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.

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

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

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

The less routine the more life.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

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

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

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Our ideals are our better selves.

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

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

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

The traveled mind is the universal mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

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

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

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

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