#perfected

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#nature #perfect #perfected #still #studies

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#another #dialect #hard #only #perfected

We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually. ↗

— Dick Van Patten

#catch #dog #dog food #even #eventually

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. ↗

— James Buchan

#any #bags #commerce #completed #course

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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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

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #god #jesus-christ #perfected-man #religion