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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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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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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. – Matthew Arnold

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Patience
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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishmans heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. – Matthew Arnold

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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 is good from whatever lamp it shines. – Author Unknown

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sun spreads through the treetops like an epidemic. – Dave Bonta, from The Morning Porch, morningporch.com/2009/04/96792742

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