Author

Henry Adams

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“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.”— Henry Adams
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“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
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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”— Henry Adams
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“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”— Henry Adams
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“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”— Henry Adams
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“I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.”— Henry Adams
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“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”— Henry Adams
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“Friends are born, not made.”— Henry Adams
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“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”— Henry Adams
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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”— Henry Adams
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“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”— Henry Adams
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“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.”— Henry Adams
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“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
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“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”— Henry Adams
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“Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.”— Henry Adams
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“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”— Henry Adams
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“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”— Henry Adams
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“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”— Henry Adams
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“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”— Henry Adams
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“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”— Henry Adams
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“Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”— Henry Adams
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“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
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“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”— Henry Adams
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“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.”— Henry Adams
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“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”— Henry Adams