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Light Quotes by Matthew Arnold
- 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…
- Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
- The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
- Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the…
- Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And…
- Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live…
- Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.
- The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a…
- Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,…
- The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is…
- It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to…
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- Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that… — Paulo Coelho
- When the lights don't glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will… — Drake
- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain
- God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Unknown Author
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired… — Jacqueline Bisset
- When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez