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.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
More Henry James Quotes
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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