Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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