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Books Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
- Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
- Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of…
- The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose…
- One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
- Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
- One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new…
- Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader…
- Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely…
- The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal…
- Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.
- That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
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