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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. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. – Saint Thomas Aquinas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Brooks Atkinson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. – Michelangelo Buonarroti	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Dr. David M. Burns	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Dr. David M. Burns	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. – Eugene Delacroix	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – William Faulkner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Stan Getz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love. – Bernard Grasset	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. – William Law	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image. – Blaise Pascal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Pythagorus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – David Joseph Schwartz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. – Wallace Stevens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Woodrow Wilson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement. – Lois McMaster Bujold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Strive for excellence, not perfection. – H. Jackson Jr. Brown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. – Michelle Burford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Samuel McChord Crothers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education. – Burk Hudson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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