if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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