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.
HENRY JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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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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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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