However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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