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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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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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Walter Pater
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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Poetry
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The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. – George Henry Lewes

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Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts. – Donny Osmond

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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills. – Mahalia Jackson

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Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around 92 and 96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life. – Matthew Sweet

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Saying yes to the skinny jeans by saying no to the donuts. РBetsy Ca̱as Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)

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