Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Perfection Quotes

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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I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

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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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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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True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.

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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

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

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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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Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

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

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Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.

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

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Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

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The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

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If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

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