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“Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.”

Kind May Individual Energy Perfect Perfection Mere Granted Obedience Fairness Restraint License Exhibits Subjugation

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.”

Existence Perfection Mere

Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

“Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.”

Mind Stills Ideas Soul Beautiful Form Values Beauty Cases Shapes Understood Perfection Shining Mere Admire Shells Pearls Covering Loveliness Shining Through

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.”

Thinking Humans Age Perfection Mere Greek Lasting Statues

Book:The Fox Inheritance

Source: The Fox Inheritance

“Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being”

Mind Certain Quality Perfection Mere Endure Mysterious Precise Pedants

Book:A Modern Utopia

Source: A Modern Utopia

“Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.”

Men Sex Animal Drink Argument Perfection Mere Timeless Something Better Obscene

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.”

Art Reality Artist Approach Art Is Perfection Mere Definitions Imperfect Untrue Unfaithful

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist”

Honest Perfection Errors Mere Icy Stylist There Is Hope

Book:Mackintosh's Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art

Source: Mackintosh's Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art

“Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.”

Knows Should Perfect Existence Perfection Instruments Mere Immortality Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz