Author: Henry Adams

Quotes

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

- Henry Adams

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

- Henry Adams

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

- Henry Adams

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

- Henry Adams

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.

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.

- Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

- Henry Adams

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

- Henry Adams

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

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

- Henry Adams

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

- Henry Adams

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