American - Historian | February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
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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.
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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.
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
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Friends are born, not made.
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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All experience is an arch, to build upon.
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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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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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