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All Quotes by author - Henry Adams

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

" Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. "

" A friend in power is a friend lost. "

" All experience is an arch, to build upon. "

" A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. "

" American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. "

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

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

" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "

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

" Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. "

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

" Friends are born, not made. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Intimates are predestined. "

" I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics. "

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

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

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

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

" Morality is a private and costly luxury. "

" No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. "

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

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

" No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. "

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

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

" 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. "

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