Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brook Adams Quote

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Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.	Uncategorized
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.	Uncategorized
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.	Uncategorized
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.	Uncategorized
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized
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 summonet	Uncategorized
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.	Uncategorized
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.	Uncategorized
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.	Uncategorized