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Henry Adams

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

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He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

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A friend in power is a friend lost.

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The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

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A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

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

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Friends are born, not made.

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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.