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Henry Adams

  • Henry Adams

    Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American historian and member of the Adams political family, being descended from two U.S.

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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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Henry Adams

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

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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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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

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All experience is an arch, to build upon.

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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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Friends are born, not made.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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