American - Historian | February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams
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They know enough who know how to learn.
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
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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.
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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.
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
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