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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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. – Walter Pater

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Beauty
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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Poetry
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. – Walter Pater

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they dont play together, the club wont be worth a dime. – Babe Ruth

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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. – Havelock Ellis

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I think that everything you do helps you to write if youre a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you dont experience either one of those, youre being deprived of something. – Shelby Foote

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Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. – Donald A. Miller

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