You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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 from what they might be.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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