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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Matthew Arnold
Character, Perfection, Personality
Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869)
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.