s;
in short, the intolerant man is the real pedant.--_Richter._

~Perfection.~--It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may
always advance towards it, though we know it can never be
reached.--_Johnson._

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human
intelligence; to desire to possess it is the most dangerous kind of
madness.--_Alfred de Musset._

That historian who would describe a favorite character as faultless
raises another at the expense of himself. Zeuxis made five virgins
contribute their charms to his single picture of Helen; and it is as
vain for the moralist to look for perfection in the mind, as for the
painter to expect to find it in the body.--_Colton._

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.--_Michael Angelo._

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a
perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even
the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds. And faults
of some kind nestle in every bosom.--_Spurgeon._

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no
more.--_Tennyson._

~Persecution.~--Of all persecutions, that of calumny is the most
intolerable. Any other kind of persecution can affect our outward
circumstances only, our properties, our lives; but this may affect our
characters forever.--_Hazlitt._

~Perseverance.~--Great effects come of industry and perseverance; for
audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds.--_Bacon._

Let us only suffer any person to tell us his story, morning and evening,
but for one twelve-month, and he will become our master.--_Burke._

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance, and
make a seeming impossibility give way.--_Jeremy Collier._

Much rain wears the marble.--_Shakespeare._

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only
failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he
sees to be best.--_George Eliot._

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows
unconsciously into genius.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Perseverance is not always an indication of great abilities. An
indifferent poet is invulnerable to a repulse, the want of sensibility
in him being what a noble self-confidence was in Milton. These excluded
suitors continue, nevertheless, to hang their garlands at the gate, to
anoint the door-post, and even kiss the very thresho