I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESTo 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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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