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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Crave not perfection from others & you will get the best behaviour they can offer.
Crave not perfection from others & you will get the best behaviour they can offer.
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take read more
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals read more
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it read more
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
