#perfected

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#glory #grace #perfected

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#drawings #illustration #make #perfected #thousands

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#fertilize #genius #interpret #itself #much

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#good manners #indistinguishable #japanese #made #manners

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. ↗

— Sam Abell

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I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#few #i #learned #me #months

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#consciousness #descriptive #ideal #large #only

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ↗

— Jane Porter

#brightness #happiness #heart #itself #kindred