If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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