There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
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Pride is the mask we make of our faults
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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep
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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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In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow
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Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender
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We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none
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People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not
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Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
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Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news.. And it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up
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The laws of nature are written deep in the folds and faults of the earth. By encouraging men to learn those laws one can lead them further to a knowledge of the author of all laws.
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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
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I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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Frank: All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Arthur: Christianity, of course, but why journalism?
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