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“Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.”

Ifs May Light Fall Numbers Virtue Greater Faults Strive Commit Neglect Repentance Large Numbers

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.”

Men Fall Born Rose Faults Bud Rose Buds

Author:Robert Herrick

“Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours.... You can only clean up your side of the street.”

People Ifs Persons Two Together Fall Sides Streets Percent Clean Faults Falling Apart Your Side Coming Together

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.”

World Children Seems Values Fall Loses Pieces Mouths Faults Fruit Appreciation Tongue Sheer Falling To Pieces

Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin

“What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?”

Fall Tears Faults Pardon

Book:Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition

Source: Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition

“If you fall on concrete, that's yo ass fault”

Ifs Fall Faults Ass Concrete

Author:Kanye West

“Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song.”

Said Sometimes Enough Wanted Song Fall Glory Hundred Faults Opening Urges Rhyme Unsaid

Author:Robert Hunter

“To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.”

Want May Fall Passion Fate Luck Faults Misfortunes Good Luck Curb Blameless

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.”

May Fall Poet Taste Faults Deficiency

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.”

Men Law Lying Fall Virtue Presses Faults Oppression

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“You are surprised at your imperfections,--why? I should infer from that, that your self-knowledge is small. Surely you might rather be astonished that you do not fall into more frequent and more grievous faults, and thank God for His upholding grace.”

Should Self Might Fall Grace Faults Imperfection Thank God Self Knowledge

Author:Jean Grou

“Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.”

Ifs Men Seems Fall Passion Wish Blame Faults Philosopher Vices Pious

Author:Baruch Spinoza