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34 Perfects quotes by 27 unique authors

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. — Djuna Barnes
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a… — Thomas Carlyle
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith. — Edward McKendree Bounds
True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can… — Sri Chinmoy
The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every obstacle that he… — Maria Montessori
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work. — John Suckling
We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right… — Oswald Chambers
A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards… — Ming-Dao Deng
Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it. — Thomas Aquinas
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never… — David Brewster
Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may… — Max Stirner
One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp. — Ed Wood
Only silence perfects silence. — A. R. Ammons
The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it.… — Christopher West
A man perfects himself by working. — Thomas Carlyle
THE ART OF PEACE is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions. — Morihei Ueshiba
The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to… — Alexander Kotov
Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. — Frank Pittman
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true happiness… — Pope Benedict XVI
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable. — Chanakya
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases… — Thomas Carlyle
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is… — George MacDonald
As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue?… — Gustave Flaubert
Time perfects men as well as destroys them. — Chanakya

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