An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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