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.
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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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