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Inspirational Quotes by Henry Adams
- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
- Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
- Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.
- It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
- Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
- Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.
- In the one branch he most needed
- The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.
- If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.
- Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.
- Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
- Intimates are predestined.
- The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.
- An artist's business is only to see.
- Man loves most that which is his own.
- Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
- Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.
- [P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
- Good men do the most harm.
- History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.
- History is only a value of relation.
- Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.
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