Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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