One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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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 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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