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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a c

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. – 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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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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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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But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. – Xenophon

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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all mens souls. – James Russell Lowell

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I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I dont mind her anymore. Shes okay. Weve become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips. – Kim Novak

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