Excellence does not require perfection.
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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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