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Quote by Walter Pater
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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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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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places. – David Rittenhouse

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Ive just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasnt a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. Shes one of those life-affirming characters. – Sophie Thompson

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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence. – James Allen

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Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. – Margaret Cho

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