The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGreatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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