The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
More Henry James Quotes
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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