There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTThere are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTA government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTModesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTIf the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them — structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTOne must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTGenius–the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTFriendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTThe richest minds need not large libraries.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTA work of real merit finds favor at last.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTCivilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTFullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTDevotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTA true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTTruth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTThe passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTMy favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author’s portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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