Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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