Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
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“We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.”
“There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.”
“Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.”
Source: Comedies of Plautus
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
“No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.”
“To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.”
Source: Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
Source: The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence
“One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.”
“The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
“Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila
Source: Poems
“I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“Less shame a greater fault would palliate.”
Source: Dante's Divina commedia, tr. in the metre and triple rhyme of the original, with notes, by mrs. Ramsay
Source: The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon
“Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.”
Source: The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon
“Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.”
Source: The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata
Source: On Music
“Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.”
Source: Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America