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  • Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Perfect Quotes , Mind Quotes
  • Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Distance Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Perfect Quotes , Water Quotes
  • Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ajahn Sumedho Quotes , Heart Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
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    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Play Quotes , Perfect Quotes