CONTENTS
Studies in the history of the Renaissance
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Author: Pater Walter (1839-1894)
Year: 1873
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy is success in life... What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions... We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness: some in high passions – the wisest in art and song... for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
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