To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
HENRY JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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