Henry Adams

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Friends are born, not made. ↗

— Henry Adams

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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ↗

— Henry Adams

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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. ↗

— Henry Adams

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A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly ↗

— Henry Adams

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[A] friend in power is a friend lost. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see. ↗

— Henry Adams

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The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. ↗

— Henry Adams

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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. ↗

— Henry Adams

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He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced. ↗

— Henry Adams

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