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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.

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  Love, Broken Heart, Pain

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy: An American Novel!”, p.168, eKitap Projesi (PublishDrive)

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• The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

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  Sex, Women, Humorous

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• A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns.

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  Children, Government, Years

  Henry Adams (2011). “History of the United States of America -”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing between flashes of intense perception. ... Rigidly denying himself the amusement of philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems, and liked to wander past them in a courteous temper, even bowing to them distantly as though recognizing their existence, while doubting their respectibility.

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  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

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• Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

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  Passion, Men, Young

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.166, Booklassic

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• As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

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  Real, Democracy, May

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.462, Harvard University Press

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• No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

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  Teaching, Men, Cost

  Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.276, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Differences, Influence, Select

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 17 (1907)

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• The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.

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  Rome, Years, History

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1343, Open Road Media

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• If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

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  Queens, Women, Males

  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.248, BookRix

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• Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

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  Love Is, Average, Perfect

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.31, Booklassic

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• In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

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  Men, Practice, Principles

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.50, Booklassic

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• The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.

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  Men, Ideas, Atheism

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1519, Open Road Media

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• The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.

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  Home, Greek, Style

  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.116, BookRix

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• A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

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  Years, Two, Bird

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.480, The Floating Press

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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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  America, Water, Society

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

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  Tears, Shed, Ifs

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.128, Booklassic

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• It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

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  Love, Disease, Nervous

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Morning, Thank God

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

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  Hands, Path, Illusion

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.409, Booklassic

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• A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

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  Boys, Men, Broken

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.15, Booklassic

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• If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency; a faith warmer than that of reasoning; a love purer than that of the self; he has been slow to express it; still slower to urge it.

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  Ambition, Self, Making Money

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• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

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  Wings, Imagination, Weight

  Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.436, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.

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  Giving, Way, Downers

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• Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.

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  Effort, Unity, Energy

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.313, Penguin

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