Perfection

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• Quote 3033

  If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.
  by: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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• Quote 3018

  Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides
  by: John Burroughs

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• Quote 2915

  Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him
  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2909

  To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues
  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2894

  The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit
  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2872

  A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense
  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2854

  The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things
  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2847

  A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
  by: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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• Quote 2819

  The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth
  by: Charles Lamb

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• Quote 2774

  The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back
  by: Karl Kraus

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• Quote 2715

  The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate
  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2707

  A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2582

  You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
  by: Edward Coke

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• Quote 2580

  Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason
  by: Edward Coke

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• Quote 2561

  Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable
  by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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• Quote 2529

  The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
  by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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• Quote 2515

  To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God
  by: Anton Chekhov

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• Quote 2499

  Conciseness is the sister of talent
  by: Anton Chekhov

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• Quote 2495

  Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass
  by: Anton Chekhov

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• Quote 2482

  Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practice
  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2449

  Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it
  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2332

  There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking
  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2322

  No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less
  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2276

  Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same
  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2002

  The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is
  by: Dante Alighieri

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