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The only success worth ones powder was success in the line of ones

The only success worth ones powder was success in the line of ones idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? – Henry James

Other quotes by Henry James

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James

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America
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Henry James
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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Civilization
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We work in 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

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Art
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. – Alexander Graham Bell

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Success makes you less intimidated by things. – Nate Silver

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No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. – Henry A. Kissinger

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Success

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself. – James E. Casey

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The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesnt have eyeballs or fins. – Dave Barry

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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa

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Theres no money in poetry, but then theres no poetry in money, either. – Robert Graves

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesnt reduce our follies. – Josh Billings

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