Henry James Quote

“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

Source/Notes:
Said to his nephew, Willie James, in 1902; quoted in Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, vol V: The Master 1901-1916 (1972)

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“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
―John Maynard Keynes

Source/Notes:
As quoted in: "Christianity and human relations in industry" (1951) by Sir George Schuster, p. 109

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“Half the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
To think well of themselves.”
―T. S. Eliot

Source/Notes:
The Cocktail Party (1949)

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“Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.”
―Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes:
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798), Chapter I

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“The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”
―Henry Ward Beecher

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“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”
―Epictetus

Source/Notes:
Discourses, Book I, ch. 24

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Henry James

Born: April 15, 1843

Died: February 28, 1916 (aged 72)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Bio: Henry James was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.