Helps Achieve Perfection

Famous quotes containing the words helps, achieve and/or perfection:

“Though seen but once, it helps to wash out State Street and the engine’s soot.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power of persons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

““Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,” said the Philosopher.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)