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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.

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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.

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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

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Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

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Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

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Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

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Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

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Weaklings must lie.

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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

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