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Henry B. Adams

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They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry B. Adams
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry B. Adams
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry B. Adams
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.
Henry B. Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry B. Adams
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry B. Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry B. Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry B. Adams
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry B. Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry B. Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry B. Adams
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry B. Adams
Friends are born, not made.
Henry B. Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry B. Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry B. Adams
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry B. Adams
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 B. Adams
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry B. Adams
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry B. Adams
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 B. Adams
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry B. Adams
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry B. Adams
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry B. Adams
Intimates are predestined.
Henry B. Adams
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.
Henry B. Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry B. Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry B. Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry B. Adams
The proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry B. Adams
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Henry B. Adams
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry B. Adams
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry B. Adams
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry B. Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry B. Adams
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry B. Adams
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry B. Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry B. Adams
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry B. Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry B. Adams

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