The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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