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Michelangelo
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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Michael J. Fox
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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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William Law
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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
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George Will
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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
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Michelle Burford
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Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
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Salvador Dali
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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Eugene Delacroix
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
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Sidney Poitier
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We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
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La Bruyere
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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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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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Bible
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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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Lois McMaster Bujold
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.
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Psalms 11996
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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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Bernard Grasset
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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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William Faulkner
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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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SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
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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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Walt Whitman
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In the broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection.
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Pythagorus
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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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Kahlil Gibran
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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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George Orwell
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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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Lytton Strachey
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
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Woodrow Wilson
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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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Brooks Atkinson
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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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Blaise Pascal
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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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Stan Getz
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My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life.
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Dr. David M. Burns
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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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David Joseph Schwartz
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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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THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 556.
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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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Thomas Huxley
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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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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
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Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.
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Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
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Strive for excellence, not perfection.
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Perfection is the enemy of the good.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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My couch potato routine honed to perfection
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But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
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Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
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Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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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.
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
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"A pony: a big juicy one, grilled to perfection" - Baby's birthday
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I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mount
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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
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"The creation of perfection is no error." - Nomad
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"I'm cursed with perfection." -- Frank Burns
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"Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits."
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"Strive for perfection even if others must suffer." -- Hook
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
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The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the hig
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to pleas
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"Good enough," is the enemy of perfection.
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In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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"You know I abhor perfection in anyone but myself!"
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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 whet
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