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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

Djuna Barnes

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Edward Gibbon

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Eustace Budgell

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.

Gilbert Millstein

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Henry Ward Beecher

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Jeremy Collier

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

John Drinkwater

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

Lord Chesterfield

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Marilyn Monroe

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Matthew Fox

The essence of man is imperfection.

Norman Cousins

Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.

O. Hallesby

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Owen Feltham

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Plato

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

Polykarp Kusch

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

Robert Hillyer

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Saint Augustine

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Saint Francis de Sales

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them-every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

Saint Patrick

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Antonyms: deficient, imperfect

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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

Djuna Barnes

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Edward Gibbon

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Eustace Budgell

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.

Gilbert Millstein

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Henry Ward Beecher

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Jeremy Collier

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

John Drinkwater

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

Lord Chesterfield

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Marilyn Monroe

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Matthew Fox

The essence of man is imperfection.

Norman Cousins

O. Hallesby

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Owen Feltham

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Plato

Polykarp Kusch

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

Robert Hillyer

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Saint Augustine

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Saint Francis de Sales

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

Saint Patrick

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