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Thought Quotes by Henry Adams
- No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- [Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
- 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 hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and…
- One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought,…
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