O children, what do ye reply?
(Stanzas From The Grande Chartreuse)
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.Matthew Arnold
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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But, since life teems with ill,
Nurse no extravagant hope.
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Here at my feet what wonders pass,
What endless, active life is here!
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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