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Henry Adams Quotes: "All experience is an arch, to build upon."

All experience is an arch, to build upon.



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."

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: "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."

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: "Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.




Henry Adams Quotes: "One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible."

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.



Henry Adams Quotes: "Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.



Henry Adams Quotes: "They know enough who know how to learn."

They know enough who know how to learn.




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."

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: "Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world."

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.



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."

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: "There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.



Henry Adams Quotes: "The proper study of mankind is woman."

The proper study of mankind is woman.




Henry Adams Quotes: "Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.



Henry Adams Quotes: "The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems."

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.



Henry Adams Quotes: "Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see."

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.



Henry Adams Quotes: "The world is coming to an end in 1950."

The world is coming to an end in 1950.



Henry Adams Quotes: "Friends are born, not made."

Friends are born, not made.



Henry Adams Quotes: "Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.



Henry Adams Quotes: "A friend in power is a friend lost."

A friend in power is a friend lost.



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."

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 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."

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 Adams Quotes: "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.



Henry Adams Quotes: "Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.



Henry Adams Quotes: "It is always good men who do the most harm in the world."

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.



Henry Adams Quotes: "The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society."

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.



Henry Adams Quotes: "[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore."

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.



Henry Adams Quotes: "I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.



Henry Adams Quotes: "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.



Henry Adams Quotes: "Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage."

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.



Henry Adams Quotes: "I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world."

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.



Henry Adams Quotes: "I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down."

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.



Henry Adams Quotes: "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."

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 Adams Quotes: "Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence."

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.



Henry Adams Quotes: "Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.



Henry Adams Quotes: "A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless."

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.



Henry Adams Quotes: "Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit."

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.



Henry Adams Quotes: "Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends."

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.



Henry Adams Quotes: "History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea."

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.



Henry Adams Quotes: "At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter."

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.



Henry Adams Quotes: "Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.



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."

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: "He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.



Henry Adams Quotes: "Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.



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."

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: "History is only a catalogue of the forgotten."

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.



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."

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: "You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!"

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!



Henry Adams Quotes: "No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.



Henry Adams Quotes: "The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong."

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.