23Nov2008
In : Quotes
Author : Frédérick Jézégou
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Quotations by Matthew Arnold
Other quotes and quotations :
- Nobody’s interested in sweetness and light. Hedda Hopper
- The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. George F. Will
- Greatness is a spiritual condition. Matthew Arnold
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold
- Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. Matthew Arnold
- Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! Matthew Arnold
- This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. Matthew Arnold
- With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. Matthew Arnold
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