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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Failure
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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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Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram. – Larry Craig

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Theres that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. – Jodi Picoult

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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. – Elias Canetti

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You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success. – Joe Nichols

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