"Great passions ...."

Bird tale:
Nest building

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

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Walter Pater

"What we have to do ...."

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

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Walter Pater