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Only Quotes by Henry Adams
- Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
- [P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care…
- I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women…
- He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the…
- At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education,…
- The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
- An artist's business is only to see.
- There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last…
- The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and…
- History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
- History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.
- History is only a value of relation.
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