If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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I 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.
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