#perfection

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. ↗

— Richard Whately

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#only #our #perfection #realise #through

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection. ↗

— Maurice Greene

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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. ↗

— William Ames

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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#harmony #heaven #music #our #perfection

My ambition is peace and perfection. ↗

— DeForest Kelley

#peace #perfection

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. ↗