Henry Adams Short Quotes

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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

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Objections fatal to one mind are futile to another.

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Some people are made with faith. I am made without it.

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... taste is free, and all styles are good which amuse.

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Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.

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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

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

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She regarded men as creatures made for women to dispose of.

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If the glacial period were uniformity, what was catastrophe?

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

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In doubt, the quickest way to clear one's mind is to discuss.

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The laws of history only repeat the lines of force or thought.

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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

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... what struck boys most was their type. Senators were a species

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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

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Newport was charming, but it asked for no education and gave none.

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Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

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Russia is omnipotence.… who can ever penetrate that polar mystery?

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Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.

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... simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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True artists, turned critics, think also less of rules than of values.

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In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

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

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Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

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The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

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Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

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I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.

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