And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESWe work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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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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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 one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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