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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
Mind
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
Life
Ceremony
Circumstances
Tea
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
Experience
Deep
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Henry James
American
Being
Europe
Fate
Fighting
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Henry James
Life
Cats
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Henry James
Life
Belief
Fact
Help
Living
Will
Worth
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
Henry James
Tongue
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Henry James
Love
Writer
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
Henry James
Time
Right
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Henry James
Possession
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry James
Death
Life
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James
Character
Determination
We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James
Art
Work
Doubt
Madness
Passion
Rest
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
Henry James
Being
Injury
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 kind.
Henry James
Life
First