Henry Adams Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

  Henry Adams

  Life, Change, Order

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 16 (1907)

• Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

  Henry Adams

  Change, Order, Chaos

• 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.

  Henry Adams

  Talking, Tongue, Language

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.112, Booklassic

• The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

  Henry Adams

  Expression, Habit, Strikes

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.89, Booklassic

• Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

  Henry Adams

  Mind, President, Firsts

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