For though she is, as thou seest, beautiful as the moon, and like it, full of arts, and above all, a dancer that would turn even Tumburu green with envy, all this nectar has become poison by the curse of that old ascetic, and the very perfection of her beauty has become the means of undoing us both.

Once he had been a beauty, and the perfection which first startled her had been a ghost out of his past.

I, too, rest in faith That man's perfection is the crowning flower Towards which the urgent sap in life's great tree Is pressingseen in puny blossoms now,

These, I need hardly tell you, are the terms in which common men have usually carried on their active commerce with God; and the monistic perfections that make the notion of him so paradoxical practically and morally are the colder addition of remote professorial minds operating in distans upon conceptual substitutes for him alone.

The two great perfections that both adorn and exercise man's understanding, are philosophy and religion: for the first of these, take it even among the professors of it where it most flourished, and we shall find the very first notions of common-sense debauched by them.

But then perfection is their only merit; and a crack or a flaw destroys all the pleasure of a sensible beholder.

It is far from Greatness of Spirit to persist in the Wrong in any thing, nor is it a Diminution of Greatness of Spirit to have been in the Wrong: Perfection is not the Attribute of Man, therefore he is not degraded by the Acknowledgment of an Imperfection: But it is the Work of little Minds to imitate the Fortitude of great Spirits on worthy Occasions, by Obstinacy in the Wrong.

Perfection is perfection to my mind, and I have always thought it a dangerous thing for a soul to fancy it had attained it.

The perfection which is attained by a single effort is generally a poor and tame one.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

Miss Nowell's perfection is a subject about which there cannot be two opinions.

Perfection is one thing; that is next to it which is most like it; from which consideration it is evident that that which is most unlike perfection is the worst.

That perfection of the intellect, which is the result of education, and its beau ideal, to be imparted to individuals in their respective measures, is the clear, calm, accurate vision and comprehension of all things, as far as the finite mind can embrace them, each in its place, and with its own characteristics upon it.

The supreme perfection is the libertas non errandi.

Perfection is internal (real, objective) purposiveness, and utility is external purposiveness, both for a definite purpose; beauty, on the other hand, is purposiveness without a purpose, formal, subjective purposiveness.

And since the opposite weaknesses infest the nature of man fallen, if we will be true to the rules of contraries we must conclude that these perfections were the lot of man innocent....

The perfection of the microscope was the reason this time.