Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude...

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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Walter Pater
Quote by Walter Pater about gifts, attitude, sleep, sun, moment, day.
Walter Pater

Walter Pater 1839 - 1894, english critic

Life period: 1839 - 1894
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