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"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."
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"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
"In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value. Perfection, after all, implies you've reached the zenith. There is no possibility or potentiality. There is no room for imagination. There is no ability to visualize a concept. Perfection is limited by its own nature, which in short, is zero."
"I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest."
"It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil."
"I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty."
"No text, being human creation, is free from flaws " it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept their good elements and discard the bad ones."
"Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty."
"Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections."
"No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."
"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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