PERFECTION

Related Subjects: Faults, Purity

1. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.—Bible, Matthew 5:48
   

2. All his perfections were so rare,
   The wit of man could not declare
   Which single virtue, or which grace
   Above the rest had any place.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras's Elegy
   

3. Oh! she was perfect past all parallel—
   Of any modern female saint's comparison.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

4. Everything splendid is rare, and nothing is harder to find than perfection.—CICERO, De Amicitia
   

5. The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little.—EMERSON, Essays
   

6. The desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the
   human mind.—FONTANES
   

7. The very pink of perfection.—GOLDSMITH, She Stoops to Conquer
   

8. Were she perfect, one would admire her more, but love her less.—C. HARTLEY GRATTAN
   

9. Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.—MICHELANGELO
   

10. God made thee perfect, not immutable.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

11. 'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find
    In all the world, much less in womankind.—POPE, January and May
    

12. Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve
    Humbly call'd mistress.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
    

13. She did make defect perfection.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
    

14. Thou art the nonpareil.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

15. I had else been perfect,
    Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
    As broad and general as the casing air.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

16. How many things by season season'd are
    To their right praise and true perfection!—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

17. But you, O you,
    So perfect and so peerless, are created
    Of every creature's best!—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

18. If, one by one, you wedded all the world,
    Or from the all that are took something good,
    To make a perfect woman, she you kill'd
    Would be unparallel'd.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale
    

19. Every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment.—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet XV
    

20. No perfect thing is too small for eternal recollection.—ARTHUR SYMONS
    

21. I thought I could not breathe in that fine air,
    That pure severity of perfect light.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
    

22. In this broad earth of ours,
    Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
    Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
    Nestles the seed Perfection.—WALT WHITMAN, Song of the Universal