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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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
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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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Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place you’ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness
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The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
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That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)
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I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.
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I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.
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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.
