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| Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? (Thomas a Kempis) |
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| Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. (Dr. David M. Burns) |
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| Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. (Saint Francis de Sales) |
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| I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. (Michael J. Fox) |
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| There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life. (Joseph Addison) |
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| It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others. (Francois Fenelon) |
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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. (Richard Whately) |
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| This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. (Saint Augustine) |
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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 of them the means to achieve great ends. (Charles de Gaulle) |
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Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle. (Michelangelo Buonarroti) |
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| I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. (Joseph Addison) |
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| American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. (W. Somerset Maugham) |
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| Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact language is preserved or not, provided we have his thought? The answer is, that inaccurate quotation is a sin against truth. It may appear in any particular instance to be a trifle, but perfection consists in small things, and perfection is no trifle. (Robert W. Shaunon) |
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| I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement. (Lois McMaster Bujold) |
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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 please himself or others. (Hazlitt) |
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| While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at. (Oscar Wilde) |
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| Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) |
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| society reflects not the perfection of God as much as the failings of a rather selfish human nature. (Thomas Hobbes) |
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| Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. (Saint Thomas Aquinas) |
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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. (Thomas H. Huxley) |
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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. (Lytton Strachey Eminent Victorians) |
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| Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction. (J. Gregory Keyes) |
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| Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education. (Burk Hudson) |
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| Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it. (Salvador Dali) |
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