A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMESBe generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
More Henry James Quotes
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Three 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.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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