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Moment Quotes by Walter Pater
- Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces…
- A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the…
- A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and…
- Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood…
- Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their…
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