Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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