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.
HENRY JAMESThree 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.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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