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

Other quotes by Walter Pater

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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Experience
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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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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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Success
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Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. – Author Unknown

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Success

Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes its good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide. – Simon Mainwaring

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Success

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasnt really enjoying my success. – Shania Twain

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Success

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school. – Damian Lewis

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Success

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I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. – Judy Collins

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