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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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. – Walter Pater

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Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. – Josh Billings

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It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone. – Bryant H. McGill

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Parents of recovered children, and Ive met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply natures course. We all know better, and frankly were too busy helping other parents to really care. – Jenny McCarthy

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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. – Ezra Taft Benson

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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. – Peter Drucker

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I think its really cool how J. Los been able to balance an acting career and a music career. Thats something I strive for. – Victoria Justice

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We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. – Evelyn Dunbar

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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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