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“The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.”

Beautiful Faces Perfect Beauty Strange Perfection Ugly Ugliness Beautiful Face

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.”

Source: The Forsyte Saga, Complete: England Literature

“It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.”

Stills Faces Strange Perfection Witness

Book:Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.”

Humans May God Shows Seems Law Hurt Movement Divine Strange Creatures Perfection Essence Obedience Attributes Uprightness

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.”

Ifs Thinking Believe May Courses Sound Seeing Strange Goodness Perfection Pursue Wisest

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”

Ifs Men Life Real Wisdom Lasts Imagination Opinion Strange Depends Perfection Logic Errors Worldly Applause Fallacy Weird Life

Book:The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain

“Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill of the new. But they rarely sustain the glow. They are balloons kept aloft by a restless crowd. Only the strange, the freaks of restaurant perfection, can sustain life beyond a few years.”

Years Failing Strange Fame Perfection Mad Crowds Excitement Restaurants Freak Thrill Restless Balloons Notoriety Bustle

Author:Sam Sifton

“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