Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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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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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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