| 33 Famous Quotes by Henry Brooks Adams
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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit”
Chaos Quotes |
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“You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!”
Congress Quotes |
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“Morality is a private and costly luxury”
Luxury Quotes |
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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit”
Order Quotes |
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“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies”
Publicity Quotes |
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“For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot
Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.”
Books (first lines) Quotes Source: Democracy [1880]
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“The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the
morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting
in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down
the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of
chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with
scarlet oaks and yellow maples.”
Books (first lines) Quotes Source: Esther [1884] (ch. 1)
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“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
Doubt Quotes |
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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
Fact Quotes |
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“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”
Language Quotes |
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“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
Order Quotes |
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“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.”
Restraint Quotes |
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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Teachers Quotes |
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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.”
Friends / friendship Quotes |
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“No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.”
History Quotes |
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“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”
Books and reading Quotes |
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“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.”
Congress Quotes |
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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
Education Quotes |
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“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.”
Men and women Quotes |
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“Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”
Philosophy Quotes |
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“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.”
Public speaking Quotes |
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“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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