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They know enough who know how to learn (Henry Adams Quotes)
One friend in a life-time 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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek (Henry Adams Quotes)
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin (Henry Adams Quotes)
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 (Henry Adams Quotes)
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 (Henry Adams Quotes)
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants (Henry Adams Quotes)
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance (Henry Adams Quotes)
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion (Henry Adams Quotes)
Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence (Henry Adams Quotes)
The first serious consciousness of Nature’s gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect (Henry Adams Quotes)
No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money (Henry Adams Quotes)
People here are quite struck aback at Sunday’s news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other (Henry Adams Quotes)
To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins (Henry Adams Quotes)
My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog (Henry Adams Quotes)
The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces (Henry Adams Quotes)
What a vast fraternity it is,--that of ‘Hearts that Ache.’ For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success (Henry Adams Quotes)
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. (Henry Adams Quotes)
My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can’t myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me. (Henry Adams Quotes)
The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture. (Henry Adams Quotes)
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. (Henry Adams Quotes)
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. (Henry Adams Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well (Henry Adams Quotes)
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance. (Henry Adams Quotes)
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (Henry Adams Quotes)
Morality is a private and costly luxury (Henry Adams Quotes)
A friend in power is a friend lost (Henry Adams Quotes)
All experience is an arch, to build upon (Henry Adams Quotes)