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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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. – Walter Pater

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

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Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation. – Philip Schaff

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The question of religion was a matter for each individuals conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area. – James Larkin

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But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what hes brilliant at. He cant still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness. – John Podhoretz

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Sit bona librorum copia. – Horace (There are plenty of good books. Let me have a good supply of books.)

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