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"It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it."
"Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last."
"I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact."
"The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium."
"I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a librettist for Broadway musicals."
"Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan."
"The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day."
"It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure."
"The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out."
"There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe."
"No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue."
"Nothing quite new is perfect."
"I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it."
"And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect; nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK."
"In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That's what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won't do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss."
"It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?"
"Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone."
"Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love."
"I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace."
"You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville."
