#perfection

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

— Matthew Arnold

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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

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As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection. ↗

— Roy Barnes

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#come #despondency #everything #give #however

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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