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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

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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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When I kicked in the first TV a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

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To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

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

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

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The development of man is a return to an original perfection.

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Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.

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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

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You would attain to the divine perfection.

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A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.

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

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All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.

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