Failure Quote by Henry James

“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?” quote by Henry James — Download Open image

“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?”

Henry James

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“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but you, and that's enough for the present. It will last a little yet. Here on my knees, with you dying in my arms, I'm happier than I've been for a long time. And I want you…

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“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had been dashed down and broken. It was gone.”

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I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin.

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“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing…

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London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

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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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God's love never fail :)

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