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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
Henry Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry Adams
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams
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.
Henry Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Adams
No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.
Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
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.
Henry Adams
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled.
Henry Adams
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