Perfection Quotes
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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
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It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
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The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.
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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
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Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
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In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
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We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
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I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.
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Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
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Four years partly illness much perfection and rejoining beauty and perfection and then at the end there came a definite creation of something. This is what is to be measured.
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Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
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It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.
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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.
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But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.
