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Things Quotes by Henry James
- It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast…
- ...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself…
- The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition…
- No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,…
- Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.
- 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…
- The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its…
- I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
- I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel
- Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
- Things are always different from what they might be.
- To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that.…
- Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.
- Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
- 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…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle