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.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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