Henry Adams Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

  Henry Adams

  Political, Politics, Occasional

• The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and the materialism of today, were all emanations of divine thought, doing their appointed work. It was the duty of the church to deal with them all, not as though they existed through a power hostile to the deity, but as instruments of the deity to work out his unrevealed ends.

  Henry Adams

  Play, Hymns, Yesterday

  Henry Adams (2014). “Esther”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

• Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

  Henry Adams

  Hands, Path, Illusion

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.409, Booklassic

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