One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMESI would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Three 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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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.
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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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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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