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

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The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.

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

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

- Henry Adams

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

- 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

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

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

- Henry Adams

Friends are born, not made.

- Henry Adams

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

- Henry Adams