The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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