If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESIt is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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