An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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