Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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More quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
- To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
- While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
- A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
- Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
- Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.