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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops."
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"Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone."
"He who lives in the present lives in eternity."
"All the wealth in this sinful world, cannot buy one second of life in God's Paradise."
"If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity."
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,And with strange aeons even death may die."
"I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity."
"I have thought the difference might be that my Mary knows she will live forever, that she will step from the living into another life as easily as she slips from sleep to wakefulness. She knows this with her whole body, so completely that she does not think of it any more than she thinks to breathe. Thus she has time to sleep, time to rest, time to cease to exist for a little."
"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."
Explore more quotes by Henry Brooks Adams
"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
"Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned."
"I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics."
"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world."
"Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants."
"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."
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