The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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