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Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. -

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. – Matthew Arnold

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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. – Matthew Arnold

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. – Matthew Arnold

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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. – Thomas Fuller

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Word by word the big books are made. – French Proverb

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