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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
Novelist
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Boston
Massachusetts
Frances Snow Compton
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!
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[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.
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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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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
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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.
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American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.
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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.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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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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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.
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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.
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American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.
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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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History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.
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