Henry Adams Quotes - Famous Quotes by Henry Adams
Born: 1838-02-16
Died: 1918-03-27
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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Friends are born, not made.
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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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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.
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Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
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The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.
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Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.
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You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
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