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Things Quotes by Walter Pater
- In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world,…
- A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an…
- 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…
- The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
- To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
- With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and…
- The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed that by what it achieved.
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