Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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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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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.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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