Quote by Walter Pater
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habit

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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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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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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Attitude
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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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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. – Thomas John Watson, Sr.

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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. – Tommy Lasorda

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There is no middle ground in Hollywood youre a failure or youre a success. That mentality is wild. – Javier Bardem

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To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. – Mark Edwards

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