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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world…
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to…
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate…
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The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all…
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly…
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with…
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This child is not mine as the first was; I cannot sing it to rest; I cannot lift it up fatherly, And…
— James Russell Lowell
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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything…
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
— Victor Hugo
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Old age transfigures or fossilizes.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment…
— Walter Pater
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Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often…
— Helen Hunt
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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
— Herbert Turnbull
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who…
— Ann Voskamp
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The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of…
— Ann Voskamp
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Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.
— D T Niles
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