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Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
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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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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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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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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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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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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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 chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
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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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Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.
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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.
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The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
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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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His brothers were the type he was the variation.
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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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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