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Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.
Arthur Symons
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But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
John Milton
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To succeed pre-eminently in English public life it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or of a clergyman; Churchill being a perfect example of the former, Halifax of the latter.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with.... The perfect match, if you ask me, is between the Cosmo woman and the fourteen-year old boy.
Nick Hornby
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Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.
Thomas Aquinas
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I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can't imagine a more perfect art form, a moreperfect career than criticism. I can't imagine anything more valuableto do.
Manny Farber
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There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.
Louis Auchincloss
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The Indian tiger lives in perfect peace with the fierce Tigress, and savage bears live together in harmony.
Juvenal
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Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.
Alexander Ovechkin
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Man, fearfully and wonderfully made, is the workmanship of his all perfect Creator: A State; useful and valuable as the contrivance is, is the inferior contrivance of man; and from his native dignity derives all its acquired importance.
James Wilson
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From perfect grief there need not be
Wisdom or even memory;
One thing then learned remains to me —
The woodspurge has a cup of three.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there's not enough time to get everything done that you're convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done.
Andy Stanley
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Sense of wrongs forget to treasure—
Brethren, live in perfect love!
In the starry realms above,
God will mete as we may measure.
Friedrich Schiller
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Things were not perfect, but most Iranians recognize now that at least we were moving forward, and Iran's international status reflected this.
Reza Pahlavi
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What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.
Marvin Minsky
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I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck—and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay—and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.
H. G. Wells
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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
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Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way
That leads from darkness to the perfect day!
Richard Watson Gilder
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If I knew for certain that I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.
Etty Hillesum
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History is a perfect arm-chair coach, but it lacks human sentiment. It's like imagining living through the Black Death in the Middle Ages. It can't be done. Essentially history is an emotional iceberg when it comes to human tragedy. We look upon the events of history as folklore, stories of human rights and wrongs, of character and cracks. History is always a good story, but its tragedies or success never hit our current-event nerve.
Michael Scott Gallegos
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A many-colored light flows from our sun;
Art, 'neath its beams a motley thread has spun;
The prison modifies the perfect day;
But thou hast known such mediums to shun,
And cast once more on life a pure white ray.
Absorbed in the creations of thy mind,
Forgetting daily self, my truest friend I find.
Margaret Fuller
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I want to be with you. My words brought a hugegrin to his incredibly beautiful face. You're my present and my future, Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy. He leaned down and touched his perfect lips to mine, and my heart took flight. I would never get tired of his kiss. Jax Stone was my everything.
Abbi Glines
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In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.
Emily Post
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In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order. But now, although some obscure lineaments of that image are found remaining in us; yet are they so vitiated and maimed, that they may truly be said to be destroyed. For besides the deformity which everywhere appears unsightly, this evil also is added, that no part is free from the infection of sin.
John Calvin
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