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For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. She was in excellent health, but she said that the climate would do her good (Henry Adams Quotes)
Sumner’s mind had reached the calm of water which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contained nothing but itself (Henry Adams Quotes)
Any large body of students stifles the student. No man can instruct more than half a dozen students at once (Henry Adams Quotes)
He had often noticed that six months’ oblivion amounts to newspaper death, and that resurrection is rare. Nothing is easier, if a man wants it, than rest, profound as the grave (Henry Adams Quotes)
Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them (Henry Adams Quotes)
Even in America, 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)
He had fallen into the usual masculine blunder of mixing up smartness of intelligence with strength of character (Henry Adams Quotes)
Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn (Henry Adams Quotes)
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman’s slavery was assumed to be for life (Henry Adams Quotes)
Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage (Henry Adams Quotes)
As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness or unfitness of natural selection; and especially scarlet fever affected boys seriously, both physically and in character, though they might through life puzzle themselves to decide whether it had fitted or unfitted them for success (Henry Adams Quotes)
Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point (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)
A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick (Henry Adams Quotes)
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life (Henry Adams Quotes)
One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it (Henry Adams Quotes)
If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all (Henry Adams Quotes)
There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us (Henry Adams Quotes)
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself (Henry Adams Quotes)
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral (Henry Adams Quotes)
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand (Henry Adams Quotes)
Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead (Henry Adams Quotes)
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself (Henry Adams Quotes)
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man (Henry Adams Quotes)
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough (Henry Adams Quotes)
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts (Henry Adams Quotes)
The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society (Henry Adams Quotes)
Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting (Henry Adams Quotes)
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught (Henry Adams Quotes)
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops (Henry Adams Quotes)