Henry Adams

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Henry Adams?

  • → Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
  • → The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
  • → It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man.
  • → It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Henry Adams.

  • → One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
  • → A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
  • → Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
  • → I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Henry Adams.

  • → Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
  • → Light is the symbol of truth.
  • → Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
  • → If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
  
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