And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
HENRY JAMESExcellence does not require perfection.
More Henry James Quotes
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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