If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESWe work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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It 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.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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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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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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