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Perfection: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

What's come to perfection perishes, Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.— ROBERT BROWNING — Old Pictures in Florence. St. 17.

Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.— CHRISTOPHER CODRINGTON — On Garth's

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

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.— POPE — Essay on Criticism. Pt. II. L. 53.

How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection!— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 107.

Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve Humbly call'd mistress.— Shakespeare — All's Well That Ends Well. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 16.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.— STEELE — The Tatler. No. 227.

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