Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but 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.

Henry Adams's Popular Quotes

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

- Henry Adams

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 ef…

- Henry Adams

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

- Henry Adams

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

- Henry Adams

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

- Henry Adams

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

- Henry Adams

Friends are born, not made.

- Henry Adams

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power hou…

- Henry Adams

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

- Henry Adams