Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESGod’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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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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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