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Them Quotes by Henry Adams
- 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…
- In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
- After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing…
- Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.
- Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies,…
- Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance…
- The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and…
- As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness…
- Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage…
- [regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the…
- That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster