I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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