56 ordspråk av Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Brooks Adams föddes den February 16th 1838 och dog den 27 March 1918 - US writer
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 He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. |
| In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. |
| In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. |
| In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man |
| Intimates are predestined |
| It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants. |
| It is always good men who do the most harm in the world |
| It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own |
| Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation |
| Morality is a private and costly luxury |
| Morality is a private and costly luxury |
| Morality is a private and costly luxury |
| No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. |
| No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. |
| No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. |
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