Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
HENRY JAMESYou wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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