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In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

Henry Brooks Adams

Chaos

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

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

Henry Brooks Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Henry Brooks Adams

Chaos

Intimates are predestined - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Intimates are predestined

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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Morality is a private and costly luxury - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Morality is a private and costly luxury

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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin

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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself

Henry Brooks Adams

In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.

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A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Brooks Adams

Power

I was interested in politics, thought I had good speaking abilities. I talked with Mr. Oliver about it and he suggested I go ahead. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

I was interested in politics, thought I had good speaking abilities. I talked with Mr. Oliver about it and he suggested I go ahead.

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This is way beyond expectations. We've got the second best golfer in the state at Aspen High School, and I am really proud of him. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

This is way beyond expectations. We've got the second best golfer in the state at Aspen High School, and I am really proud of him.

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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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American Historian God

A teacher affects eternity. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

A teacher affects eternity.

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American Historian Eternity

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Henry Brooks Adams

Man Men And Women

Friends are born, not made. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Friends are born, not made.

Henry Brooks Adams

Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

Henry Brooks Adams

Education Facts

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. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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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Cute Love Love Sweet Love

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 Brooks Adams Quotes

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.

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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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Facts Politicians And Politics

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

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They know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

They know enough who know how to learn.

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Education Knowledge

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

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Men

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

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Even in America, 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 Brooks Adams Quotes

Even in America, 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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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 - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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Men

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

Henry Brooks Adams

Men

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

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

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Man

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

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

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Faith Inferiority

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

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Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation

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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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Words were with them forms of expression which varied with individuals, but falsehood was more or less necessary to all - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Words were with them forms of expression which varied with individuals, but falsehood was more or less necessary to all

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In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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Taste

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

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A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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Man

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men

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It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

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The proper study of mankind is woman. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

The proper study of mankind is woman.

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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Henry Brooks Adams

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage

Henry Brooks Adams

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense. . . . - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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

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

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

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Man

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