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._