His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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