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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Joseph Addison

Others, Become, Quiet

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
Walt Whitman

Night, Miracle, Hour

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker

Nature, Beautiful, Nothing

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Born, Behavior, Complete

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
Anthony Trollope

Life, Husband, Wife

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes

Confidence, Doubt, Artist

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
Alanis Morissette

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman

May, Him, Forgiven

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.
Loretta Lynn

Nobody, Crucified

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin

Music, Teacher, Order

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen

Work, Amazing, Yourself

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Men, Wisdom

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen

Fine, Sit, Shade

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
Benny Hill

Mean, Nobody, Complains

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before, Everyone, Capable

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.
Kelly Brook

Love, Yourself, Learn

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine

Moderation, Total, Abstinence

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot

Happiness, Freedom, High

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before, Whole, Valor

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Courage, Looking, Capable

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.
Layne Staley

Life, Home, Wanted

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille

Sadness, Joy, Happiest

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier

Happiness, May, Moment

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut

Freedom, Nothing, Living

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot

Work, Men, Forward

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Orson Welles

Movie, Mediocre, Refuge

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Waiting, Long, Keep

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honore de Balzac

Society, Hard, Solve

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas

Nature, Power, Sex

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