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A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
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Historian Of The Modern Age
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Boston
Massachusetts
Frances Snow Compton
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You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.
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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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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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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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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.
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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.
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One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.
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The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
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Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.
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Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.
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The world is coming to an end in 1950.
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No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.
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Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough its judgments rougher still.
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As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
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American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.
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The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.
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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.
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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
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