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Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more.
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
He has not a single redeeming defect.
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
Among the other excellencies of man, this is one, that he can from the image of perfection much beyond what he has experience of in himself, and is not limited in his conception of wisdom and virtue.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it require the hand of time.
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
Bachelor’s wives and old maid’s children are always perfect.
We are what we are; we cannot be truly other than ourselves. We reach perfection not by copying, much less by aiming at originality, but by constantly and steadily working out the life which is common to all, according to the character which God has given us.
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven and the more glorious that glory.
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Neglect nothing; the most trivial action may be performed to God.
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.
The stoic philosophy insults human nature, and discourages all our attempts, by enjoying and promising a perfection in this life, of which we feel ourselves incapable. The Christian religion shows compassion to our weakness, by prescribing to us only the practical task of aiming continually at further improvements and animates our endeavors, by the promise of divine aid, equal to our trial.
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds. And faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God’s work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, “Behold it was very good.”
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to except to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, thinks what never was, nor is, not ever shall be.
Pope.
The acorn does not become an oak in a day; the ripened scholar is not made by a single lesson; the well-trained soldier was not the raw recruit of yesterday; there are always months between the seed-time and harvest. So the path of the just is like the shining light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
This is very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
He that seeks perfection on earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven. As long as men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity; and as long as they govern, errors in state.
Lord Tennyson (1809-1872) English Poet.
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
He has not a single redeeming defect.
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
English proverb.
Among the other excellencies of man, this is one, that he can from the image of perfection much beyond what he has experience of in himself, and is not limited in his conception of wisdom and virtue.
Hume.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it require the hand of time.
Voltaire.
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
Diogenes.
Bachelor’s wives and old maid’s children are always perfect.
Chamfort.
We are what we are; we cannot be truly other than ourselves. We reach perfection not by copying, much less by aiming at originality, but by constantly and steadily working out the life which is common to all, according to the character which God has given us.
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven and the more glorious that glory.
Baxter.
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Neglect nothing; the most trivial action may be performed to God.
Angelique Arnauld.
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.
Chesterfield.
The stoic philosophy insults human nature, and discourages all our attempts, by enjoying and promising a perfection in this life, of which we feel ourselves incapable. The Christian religion shows compassion to our weakness, by prescribing to us only the practical task of aiming continually at further improvements and animates our endeavors, by the promise of divine aid, equal to our trial.
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Johnson.
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds. And faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
Spurgeon.
If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God’s work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, “Behold it was very good.”
Ruskin.
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to except to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Alfred do Musset.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
Tennyson.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, thinks what never was, nor is, not ever shall be.
Pope.
The acorn does not become an oak in a day; the ripened scholar is not made by a single lesson; the well-trained soldier was not the raw recruit of yesterday; there are always months between the seed-time and harvest. So the path of the just is like the shining light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
R.B.Nichol.
This is very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
Augustine.
He that seeks perfection on earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven. As long as men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity; and as long as they govern, errors in state.
F.Osborn.
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