Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nuts Quotes, Perfect Quotes

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

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I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

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Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.

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Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.

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The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

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Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

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The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

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And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.

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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

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Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

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Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

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