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.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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