Faults Quotes
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We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.
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Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?
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The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
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It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.
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If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.
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When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.
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When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.
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So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
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Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.
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The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.
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He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.
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I'm not big on plastic surgery for me but I don't fault it for someone who wants it for them. You have to do what makes you feel good, but it's not my thing.
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Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
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Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.
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The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.
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I’ve a goodly share of faults. I rush in, where I should tread carefully. I speak, where I should listen. But when I hear them sing, I don’t just hear a hymn. They’re singing to God because they haven’t found anyone else who will listen.
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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
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McLaren have a reliability problem, ... but an aggressive style of driving can also lead to faults.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
