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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

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While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

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One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

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The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

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Art has no end but its own perfection.

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The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

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....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

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My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.

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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.

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Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

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