One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESJudge everyone and everything for yourself.
More Henry James Quotes
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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