The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESTo live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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