It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.
It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence… It is, however, necessary for the idea of perfection to be proposed, that we may have some object to which our endeavors are to be directed; […]
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
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 despondency and laziness make them give it up as unattainable.
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
He lost a wife Whose beauty did astonish the survey Of richest eyes, whose words all ears took captive, Whose dear perfection hearts that scorned to serve Humbly called mistress. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
