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“Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.”

Doe Lying Perfect Quality Perfection Rate Quantity

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.”

Art Lying Effects Perfection Unseen Ostentatious

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.”

Lying Women Figures Late Perfection Weak Beloved Adolescence Absent Weak Points

Author:Andre Maurois

“Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.”

Knows Men World Way Reality Lying Poor Practice Products Ideals Perfection Scales Alas Approximation

Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.”

Knows Men Mind Wisdom Christian Lying Christianity Teach Wise Perfection Tranquillity

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor