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Henry Adams

Friends are born, not made.

— Henry Adams end

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

— Henry Adams eternity

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

— Henry Adams experience

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

— Henry Adams life

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

— Henry Adams life

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

— Henry Adams man

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

— Henry Adams nature

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

— Henry Adams science

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

— Henry Adams self

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

— Henry Adams education

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

— Henry Adams men

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

— Henry Adams travel

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

— Henry Adams man

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

— Henry Adams purpose

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

— Henry Adams words

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

— Henry Adams politics

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

— Henry Adams faith

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

— Henry Adams politics

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

— Henry Adams man

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

— Henry Adams intelligence

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

— Henry Adams broken

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

— Henry Adams evolution

A friend in power is a friend lost.

— Henry Adams power

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

— Henry Adams intelligence

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

— Henry Adams man

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