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imperfections
«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
| Keywords:
aging, awed, bats, bloodied, breathe, care for, companions, dearest, delicate, eaten, Everything is Beautiful, fits, fray, frayed, fraying, frays, gnaw, gnawed, gnaws, gnaw at, imperfections, nibble, nibbled, nibbling, overwhelmingly, scarred, shines, shining, splinter, splintered, splintering, splinters, survivor, washed, wondering, wreck, wrecking
«Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty»
Author: Jeremy Collier
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
dispose, disposes, dispose of, disposing, fuller, fullers, imperfections, modesty
«Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Reason,
Truth
| Keywords:
avidity, imperfections, revealed, seasoned
«Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
choose, conceal, hear, imperfections, silence, virtues
«A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Criticism
| Keywords:
beauties, communicate, concealed, critic, dwell, excellencies, imperfections, observation
«Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
achieve, blueprint, blueprints, build, consider, creature, decide, defeated, fly, foundation, fret, frets, fretted, fretting, impede, impeded, impedes, impeding, imperfections, in progress, let fly, lifting, necessary, pleasant, pleasanter, pleasantest, progress, progressed, progresses, progressing, progress to, remind, The Power, The Vision, thoughts, vision
«A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| Keywords:
apply, architect, architectural, freedom of religion, guarantee, ignorance of the law, imperfections, mastered, observed, past master
«A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.»
«Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
crimes, imperfections, unwilling, weaknesses
