One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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