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

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We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. – Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

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Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. – Ludwig Quidde

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau

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Everyone applauds each others success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process. – Robert Rodriguez

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I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me. – Tony Parsons

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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. – Desiderius Erasmus

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. – H. L. Mencken

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I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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