Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

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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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Practical politics consists of ignoring facts.

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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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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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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

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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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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.

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Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense. . . .

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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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Philosophy unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

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Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

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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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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

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Had Grant been a Congressman one would have been on one's guard, for one knew the type. One never expected from a Congressman more than good intentions and public spirit. Newspaper-men as a rule had no great respect for the lower House Senators had less and Cabinet officers had none at all. Indeed, one day when Adams was pleading with a Cabinet officer for patience and tact in dealing with Representatives, the Secretary impatiently broke out 'You can't use tact with a Congressman A Congressman is a hog You must take a stick and hit him on the snout' The secretary who made the remark 'may well have been Adams's friend, Secretary of the Interior Jacob Dolson Cox,' according to note 18 on p. 617.

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A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.

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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.

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A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

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

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