You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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 hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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