Quote by Walter Pater
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. – 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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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. – Walter Pater

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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818

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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. – Arthur Christopher Benson

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It was my father who instilled the never say no attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination. – Marlee Matlin

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My attitude is, if someones going to criticize me, tell me to my face. – Simon Cowell

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Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars. – Alan Shepard

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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are societys tools, neither more nor less. – Henrik Ibsen

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He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. – Abraham Lincoln

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When your heart speaks, take good notes. – Judith Campbell

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