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

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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. – 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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And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or youre going to repeat it and if youre burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you dont get it, youre missing the whole point. – Michael Berryman

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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. – Sri Aurobindo

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The earth is the Lords fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. – Lewis Mumford

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Most men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays

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So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you. – Jesus Christ

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A picture is worth a thousand words. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter, and in wine. – Polish Proverb

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They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. – Bible

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