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Type: Historian Quotes Date of Birth: February 16, 1838 Date of Death: March 27, 1918 Find on Amazon: Henry B. Adams Related Authors: Howard Zinn Will Durant Michel Foucault Carter G. Woodson Hannah Arendt Lord Acton Herodotus Tacitus Sallust |
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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Henry B. Adams A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. Henry B. Adams Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. Henry B. Adams Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. Henry B. Adams All experience is an arch, to build upon. Henry B. Adams American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. Henry B. Adams At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. Henry B. Adams Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry B. Adams Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. Henry B. Adams Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. Henry B. Adams Friends are born, not made. Henry B. Adams He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. Henry B. Adams In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. Henry B. Adams Intimates are predestined. Henry B. Adams It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. Henry B. Adams It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. Henry B. Adams Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. Henry B. Adams Morality is a private and costly luxury. Henry B. Adams No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. Henry B. Adams No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry B. Adams |
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