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/Money can't buy perfection's time and place/Where bust is the one word disavowed.

America After the Great Bust, 2009 2009

Poetry, which is perfection's sweat but which must seem as fresh as the raindrops on a statue's brow, combines the natural and the marmoreal; it conjugates both tenses simultaneously: the past and the present, if the past is the sculpture and the present the beads of dew or rain on the forehead of the past.

Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture 1997

Spring from perfection's heart shall pluck her buds, and set such gloss on Nature she may laud her old self in one violet's requiem!

Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet Olive Tilford Dargan 1918

"Our poor human evasion of perfection's overstrain"; this phrase was Mr. Britling's.

Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

He found in them something of the harshness of youth, which is far too keen-edged to be tolerant with half performance and our poor human evasion of perfection's overstrain.

Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

And as increased obstacles are perfection's best incentive, a finer cunning grew out of the fresh precaution.

A Book of Scoundrels 1896

And as increased obstacles are perfection's best incentive, a finer cunning grew out of the fresh precaution.

A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894

For the consummation of any process of growth is always the perfection, the final well-being, of the thing that grows; and therefore in each successive stage of the process there is a truer prefigurement of the perfection which is being gradually achieved, and a fuller sense of that well-being which, at its highest level, is perfection's other self.

What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular Edmond Holmes 1893

The mind of man can find rest and satisfaction in nothing short of perfection; and consequently our hearts are never satisfied until they behold beauty, which is perfection's crown and seal.

Practical Ethics William De Witt Hyde 1887

Better to teach a child than toil to fill perfection's round.

Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul James Mudge 1881