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- To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. — Robert South
- The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out… — John Milton
- Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly… — Ludwig van Beethoven
- It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- [I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it… — Vincent de Paul
- The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms… — Mark Twain
- Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity. — Samuel Johnson
- It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. — W. Somerset Maugham
- It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in… — Jane Austen