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They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams
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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
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Frances Snow Compton
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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
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The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
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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
One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
Henry Adams
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.
Henry Adams
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
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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.
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It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.
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Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.
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Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.
Henry Adams
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.
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The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.
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I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.
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Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
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The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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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 mesmerised the subject.
Henry Adams
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
His brothers were the type he was the variation.
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