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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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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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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Beauty
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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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Books
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They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. – James Allen

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If you dont accept failure as a possibility, you dont set high goals, you dont branch out, you dont try – you dont take the risk. – Rosalynn Carter

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Failure

Ive had a lot of success Ive had failures, so I learn from the failure. – Gordon Ramsay

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I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again. – Elie Tahari

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The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. – Jackie Kennedy

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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone elses. – Billy Wilder

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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. – Benjamin Franklin

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