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"The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment."
"Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches."
"Perfect is the enemy of good."
"The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul."
"At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet."
"I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty."
"Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed."
"Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom."
"The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit."
"The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect."
"I think that they haven't been able to perfect a good facelift for a man."
"Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality."
"We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy."
"We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we know others who take an opposite view and say, "I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world." And those are the ones who most often change the world."
"Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters."
"Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead."
"In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way."
"A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to."
"A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it."
"On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round."
