Henry Adams
Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adamswas an American historian and member of the Adams political family, being descended from two U.S. Presidents...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 February 1838
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational leadership education
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
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A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.
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Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.
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The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every.
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One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town
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The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.
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Henry James chews more than he bites off.
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A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.
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Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.
expression habit strikes
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.
tangled may enough
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
saint assuming century
Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.