Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESThree 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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