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.
HENRY JAMESI take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
More Henry James Quotes
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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.
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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 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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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