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Quote by Matthew Arnold
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and l

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. – Matthew Arnold

Other quotes by Matthew Arnold

Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more. – Matthew Arnold

Category:
Past, the
Author
Matthew Arnold
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Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat. – Matthew Arnold

Category:
Cats
Author
Matthew Arnold
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. – Matthew Arnold

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Culture
Author
Matthew Arnold
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Other Quotes from
Light
category

Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher. – William Wordsworth

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Light

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. – Joseph Campbell

Category:
Light

Live in rooms full of light. – Cornelius Celsus

Category:
Light

The stars are the street lights of eternity. – Author Unknown

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Light

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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. – John Keats

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French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. – Christian Lacroix

Category:
design

God touched our hearts so deep inside, our special blessing multiplied. – Author Unknown

Category:
Twins

When truth is divided, errors multiply. – Eli Siegel, Damned Welcome

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Honesty