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Henry Adams quotes

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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“The imagination must be given not wings but weights.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“All experience is an arch, to build upon.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“The true American knew something of the facts, but nothing of the feelings; he read the letter, but he never felt the law.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence—of talking without meaning—is never effaced.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry 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 Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Every friend in power is a friend lost.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry 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 Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds, and Massachusetts politics had been as harsh as the climate.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Friends are born, not made” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerized the...” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“This seemed simple as running water; but simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Politics cannot stop to study psychology. Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts, and all Roosevelt's friends know that his restless and combative energy was more than abnormal.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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