The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for perfection is God's business.
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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
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Have no fear of perfection you'll never reach it.
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We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists.. In the loved one, perfection.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.
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I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad.N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end.
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The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection!
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
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The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.
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The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
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Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.
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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
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The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.
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Hail, source of being! Universal soul Of heaven and earth! Essential presence, hail! To Thee I bend the knee; to Thee my thoughts Continual, climb; who, with a master hand, Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd.
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It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
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