A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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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Every mane should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friend.

Henry Adams


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You say that love is nonsense.... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Henry Adams


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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams


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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams


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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Henry Adams


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These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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 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.

Henry Adams

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