5 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau about perfection
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A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning’s flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.
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If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.
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To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.
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There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.
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The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
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