Top 160 Henry Adams Quotes (2024 Update)
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Henry Adams Quote: “American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.”

151. “American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.”

152. “Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.”

— Henry Adams

Henry Adams Quote: “One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town.”

153. “One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “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.”

154. “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.”

— Henry Adams

Henry Adams Quote: “Charles Sumner’s mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.”

155. “Charles Sumner’s mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “He betrayed the consciousness that he and his people had a past, if they dared but avow it, and might have a future, if they could but divine it.”

156. “He betrayed the consciousness that he and his people had a past, if they dared but avow it, and might have a future, if they could but divine it.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.”

157. “Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession.”

158. “The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.”

159. “I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.”

160. “If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.”

161. “I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.”

— Henry Adams

Henry Adams Quote: “The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.”

162. “The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”

163. “Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “A new friend is always a miracle... One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

164. “A new friend is always a miracle... One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.”

165. “Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.”

166. “As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “History is only a value of relation.”

167. “History is only a value of relation.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “He could teach his students nothing. He was only educating himself at their cost.”

168. “He could teach his students nothing. He was only educating himself at their cost.”

— Henry Adams

Henry Adams Quote: “As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.”

169. “As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”

170. “Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “The world grew cheap, as worlds must.”

171. “The world grew cheap, as worlds must.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “Few men have dared to legislate as though eternal peace were at hand, in a world torn by wars and convulsions and drowned in blood; but this was what Jefferson aspired to do. Even in such dangers, he believed that Americans might safely set an example which the Christian world should be led by interest to respect and at length to imitate.”

172. “Few men have dared to legislate as though eternal peace were at hand, in a world torn by wars and convulsions and drowned in blood; but this was what Jefferson aspired to do. Even in such dangers, he believed that Americans might safely set an example which the Christian world should be led by interest to respect and at length to imitate.”

— Henry Adams

Henry Adams Quote: “Man loves most that which is his own.”

173. “Man loves most that which is his own.”

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Henry Adams Quote: “In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.”

174. “In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.”

— Henry Adams

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