It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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 mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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