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“You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.”

Humans Wells Feelings Left Ordinary Perfection Time Left

Author:Patricia Wentworth

“There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left in an imperfect state and the rest is up to you. Only the most pitifully inept child requires perfection from parents.”

Children Has Beens States Left Parent Seeing Advantage Perfection Accidents Imperfect Up To You Seeing Yourself

Author:Frank Pittman

“I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect.”

Men Believe Reason Left Perfect Mets Perfection Mad Good Man Sparks Another Man Maniacs Pretender

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.”

Ifs Feels Important Ideas Sometimes Left Perfect Honest Perfection Aspire Better Off Not Perfect

Author:Adrienne Bailon

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

“He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.”

Men Lying Left Half Marriage Fairs Perfection Blessed Excellence Finished Divided Wedding Fullness Perfect Love

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough sins left for everyone to commit after we have taken nuclear bombs away from ourselves.”

Humans Enough Dream Courses Left Goal Sin Worry Taken Perfection Nuclear Commit Bombs Utopian Abolition Nuclear Bomb

Author:Jonathan Schell

“A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.”

People Has Beens Left Waiting Work Streets Standing Perfection Corners Disappointed Bus Street Corners

Author:Donald Kennedy

“In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.”

Ifs Left White Standards Perfection Mathematics Albums Endeavor

Book:Stumbling on Happiness

Source: Stumbling on Happiness

“God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.”

Knows Way Should Different Soul Left Strange Perfection Blind Medicine Suits God Knows Vary Wrong Way

Book:Prayers, Verses, and Devotions

Source: Prayers, Verses, and Devotions