One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMES
If this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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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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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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