One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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