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Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.
Thomas Jefferson
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Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
Helen Keller
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What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.
Agatha Christie
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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
Jean de La Bruyère
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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.
Bertrand Russell
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
Victor Hugo
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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Abu Hurayra stated, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The most perfect of believers in belief is the best of them in character. The best of you are those who are the best to their women."
Muhammad
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This battle fares like to the morning's war,
When dying clouds contend with growing light,
What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,
Can neither call it perfect day nor night.
William Shakespeare
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But now let me return to my theme of the many changes that have taken place since I was last here. There is a jocular saying: 'To improve is to change; to be perfect is to have changed often.' I had to use that once or twice in my long career.
Winston Churchill
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In short, he was a perfect cavaliero,
And to his very valet seemed a hero.
Lord Byron
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As everybody knows, but the haters & losers refuse to acknowledge, I do not wear a wig. My hair may not be perfect but it's mine.
Donald Trump
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Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
Coco Chanel
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Alter! When the Hills do —
Falter! When the Sun Question if His Glory Be the Perfect One —
Surfeit! When the Daffodil Doth of the Dew—
Even as Herself—Sir —
I will—of You—
Emily Dickinson
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All in the waning light she stood,
The star of perfect womanhood.
Lewis Carroll
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Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.
Che Guevara
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside. Quite a number of people console themselves with this thought, now that totalitarianism in one form or another is visibly on the up-grade in every part of the world. Out in the street the loudspeakers bellow, the flags flutter from the rooftops, the police with their tommy-guns prowl to and fro, the face of the Leader, four feet wide, glares from every hoarding; but up in the attics the secret enemies of the regime can record their thoughts in perfect freedom—that is the idea, more or less.
George Orwell
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Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.
Emily Dickinson
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From early childhood many had felt they were expected to be perfect, but didn't feel they had the right to express their true feelings to those around them - feelings of guilt of self revulsion and low personal esteem. Creating in them a compulsion to 'disolve like a disprin' and disappear.
Diana, Princess of Wales
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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says — ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
Agatha Christie
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If there were a people of gods, they would govern themselves democratically: so perfect a government is not suitable to men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
Mother Teresa
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The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
Barack Obama
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