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History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
Henry Adams
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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
Journalist
Mathematician
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Boston
Massachusetts
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 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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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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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.
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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
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History is only a value of relation.
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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
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Man loves most that which is his own.
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For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
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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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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
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From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster -- that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys.
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A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.
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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.
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
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In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.
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Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops it was the very best substitute for religion a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.
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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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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
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As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
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