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Henry Adams quotes and sayings

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and wh... (Henry Adams)

Henry Adams



We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

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Henry Adams quotes

  • He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
  • Intimates are predestined.
  • A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
  • Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
  • Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
  • The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
  • Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
  • The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
  • They know enough who know how to learn.
  • No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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