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I would rather starve and rot...

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

No man means all he says, and...

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

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Man is an imperceptible atom ...

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

We combat obstacles in order ...

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Philosophy: Unintelligible an...

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

It is always good men who do ...

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

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The American President resemb...

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Every man who has at last suc...

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

It is impossible to underrate...

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Politics are a very unsatisfa...

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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Politics, as a practise, what...

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

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The difference is slight, to ...

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Everyone carries his own inch...

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

I have written too much histo...

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 291 quotes

Chaos was the law of nature; ...

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Knowledge of human nature is ...

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

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Susceptibility to the highest...

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

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One friend in a lifetime is m...

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 291 quotes

American society is a sort of...

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

No man likes to have his inte...

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

Henry Adams 291 quotes

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