One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESBe generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right 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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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