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 JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
More Henry James Quotes
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to 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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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