Henry Adams Quotes About Eternity

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

    The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)
  • Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

  • Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

  • 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.

    Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1530, Open Road Media
  • 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 (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.283, Booklassic
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Henry Adams

  • Born: February 16, 1838
  • Died: March 27, 1918
  • Occupation: Historian