Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
More Henry James Quotes
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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