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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ec

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – 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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Books
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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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Religion
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. – Walter Pater

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Failure
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After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity. – Charlie Gonzalez

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But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid. – Jeff Goodell

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Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it wont taste good. – Joe Paterno

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We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings. – Katherine Dunham

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No wedding bells for me anymore. Ive been happily married to my profession for years. – Shirley Bassey

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It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I dont see that same intimacy happening very much today. – Layne Staley

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Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them. – Author Unknown

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