Quotes from Orphic Sayings — Amos Bronson Alcott
1799–1888 United States
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Orphic Sayings (1840)
Conceive of slaughter and flesh-eating in Eden.
Orphic Sayings (1840)
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Orphic Sayings (1840)
Solitude is Wisdom’s school. Attend then the lessons of your own soul; become a pupil of the wise God within you, for by his tuitions alone shall you grow into the knowledge and stature of the deities. The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.
Orphic Sayings (1840)
Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.
Orphic Sayings (1840)