To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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