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As history stands, it is a sor...

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

History will die if not irrita...

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

History is the most aristocrat...

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

History is only a catalogue of...

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Nothing is easier to teach tha...

Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

My own conclusion is that hist...

My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

History is only a value of rel...

History is only a value of relation.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Mathematicians practice absolu...

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

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Chaos breeds life; Order creat...

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

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Every man should have a fair-s...

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Teachers affect eternity; no o...

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

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One friend in a life-time is m...

One friend in a life-time 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 291 quotes

By nature, man is lazy, workin...

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Silence alone is respectable a...

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Artists... disappeared long ag...

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Every syllable that can be str...

Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.

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As for piracy, I love to be pi...

As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

American politics is a struggl...

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.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Power when wielded by abnormal...

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

In practice, such trifles as c...

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

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