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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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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Beauty
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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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Success
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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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In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. – Paul Harris

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Religion

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion. – Martin Amis

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Religion

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe. – Kathie Lee Gifford

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Religion

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. – Thomas Merton

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Religion

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