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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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Discipline Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Men Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.
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    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Perfect Quotes