"At best, the renewal of broken relations is……" — Henry Adams
"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter."
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158 Quotes by Henry Adams
Henry Adams has 158 quotes on this site.
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Friends are born, not made.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in…
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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All experience is an arch, to build upon.
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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