Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESImbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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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.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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