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• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  Walter Pater

  Moving, Intellectual, Age

  Walter Pater (1873). “Studies in the History of the Renaissance”, p.13

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• To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

  Walter Pater

  Fashion, Principles, Modern

  Walter Pater (1873). “The Renaissance”, p.194

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• The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

  Walter Pater

  Renaissance, Century

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

  Walter Pater

  Book, Fall, Independent

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.96, Cambridge University Press

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• It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.

  Walter Pater

  Death, Spiritual, Religious

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