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.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
More Henry James Quotes
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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 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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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