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History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.
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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
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Boston
Massachusetts
Frances Snow Compton
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Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.
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One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
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I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.
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My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.
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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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People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other.
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint responsibility is restraint therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.
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They know enough who know how to learn.
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Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough its judgments rougher still.
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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
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Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.
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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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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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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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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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History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
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