Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
Amos Bronson Alcott
Pity the mother who assumes ...
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.
Amos Bronson Alcott
