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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
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You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
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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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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.
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All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
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Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense that which they will, is right that which they reject, is wrong and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
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Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.
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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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History is only a value of relation.
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Teachers affect eternity no one can tell where their influence stops.
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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 less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
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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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Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never made a mistake in the value he set on the whole, which he symbolized as unity and worshipped as God. To this day, his attitude towards it has never changed, though science can no longer give to force a name.
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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 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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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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No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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