Henry Adams

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. ↗

— Henry Adams

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All experience is an arch, to build upon. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ↗

— Henry Adams

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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. ↗

— Henry Adams

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

— Henry Adams

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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. ↗

— Henry Adams

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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. ↗

— Henry Adams

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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. ↗

— Henry Adams

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

— Henry Adams

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

— Henry Adams

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