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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

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. – Matthew Arnold

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Memory
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Matthew Arnold
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. – Matthew Arnold

Category:
Growth
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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
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Matthew Arnold
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Other Quotes from
Light
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Light

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Light

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. – Aaron Rose

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Light

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. – H.M. Tomlinson

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Light

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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I had a great movement teacher – he showed me how to walk so I wasnt becoming like a cartoon. – John Leguizamo

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This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about. – Adolf Galland

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