Quote by Walter Pater
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice

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. – Walter Pater

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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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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. – Walter Pater

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The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. – Charles Eastman

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I dont normally talk about my religion publicly because I dont want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way. – Dave Chappelle

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The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. – Charles Eastman

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Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. – Neale Donald Walsch

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