Quote by Walter Pater
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed r

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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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – Walter Pater

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Success
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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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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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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. – Jonathan Kozol

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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. – Chinese Proverb

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Experience

Theres no experience like on-the-job training. – Hank Azaria

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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. – Rosellen Brown

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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. – Douglas Adams

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You dont love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. – Anon.

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

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