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Henry Adams quotes and sayings

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highes... (Henry Adams)

Henry Adams



Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

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Henry Adams quotes

  • Friends are born, not made.
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
  • Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
  • The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
  • The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
  • Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
  • All experience is an arch, to build upon.
  • Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
  • Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
  • Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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