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Walter Pater

"One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most."

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"One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most."

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Donna Grant

"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

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Donna Grant

"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

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Donna Grant

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

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Donna Grant

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

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Donna Grant

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

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Donna Grant

"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

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Donna Grant

"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."

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Donna Grant

"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."

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Donna Grant

"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

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Donna Grant

"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."

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Walter Pater
"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass."

Art

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Walter Pater
"Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us."

Life

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Walter Pater
"The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads."

Age

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Walter Pater
"Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have."

Art

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Walter Pater
"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."

Art

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Walter Pater
"Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us."

Creativity

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Walter Pater
"No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece."

Religion

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Walter Pater
"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."

Life

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Walter Pater
"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."

Beauty

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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 on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening."

Attitude

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