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Henry Brooks Adams
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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.
Henry Brooks Adams,
#God
#Heart
#Man
#Woman
#Effort
#Lies
#Divinity
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.
Henry Brooks Adams,
#God
#Goodness
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Brooks Adams,
#Day
#World
#May
#Science
#Power
#Race
#Mankind
#Existence
#Suicide
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Brooks Adams,
#Politics
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Brooks Adams,
#Politics
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.
Henry Brooks Adams,
#Friend
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams,
#Influence
#Eternity
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
Henry Brooks Adams,
#Now
#Man
#Belief
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Brooks Adams,
#Art
#Literature
#Politics
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.
Henry Brooks Adams,
#Truth
#Doctrine
#Physics
#Trinity