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# Walter H Pater

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Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877), in which he outli

##  Quotes by Walter H Pater

> [I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office must be prepared not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-h-pater/i-hope-we-don-t-lose-in-america-this-demand-that-those-of-us-who-want/)

[Walter H Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-h-pater/)

[America and americans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/america-and-americans/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/816/walter-h-pater-90726_america-and-american_i-hope-we-don-t-lose-in-america-this-dem_514226.jpg)

> [All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-h-pater/all-art-constantly-aspires-towards-the-condition-of-music-because-in/)

[Walter H Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-h-pater/)

[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38b/walter-h-pater-90726_art_all-art-constantly-aspires-towards-the-c_2310802.jpg)

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