Norm MacDonald Quotes
There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
Quotes to Explore
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.
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Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault
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Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
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if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.
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I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
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Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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One is punished best for one's virtues.
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Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
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The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
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Best men oft are moulded out of faults.
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
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I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
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No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.
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Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.
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Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.
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There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
