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Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons

“Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.”

Sometimes Sin Faults

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.”

Ifs Seems Would Be Grows Atheism Mankind Safety Faults Fancy Wrath Indignation Contention Fervor Zealot Fierceness Irreligion

Author:Joseph Addison

“I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.”

Made Hands Suffering Greater Faults Critics Criminals Guilty Made It Lashes Not Guilty Hangman

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.”

Men Mind Doe Moments Turns Common Teach Produce Wine Faults Stranger Contrary Sober Duality Drunkenness Intemperance Common Experience

Author:Joseph Addison

“Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.”

Certain Arms Shapes Faults Sleeves Shortcomings

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.”

Ifs Children Parent Our Children Faults Your Children Neurotic

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.”

Trying Pay Figures Blame Guilt Faults

Book:Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

Source: Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

“Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.”

Taste Faults Excellence

Book:The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose

Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose

“It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.”

Should Matter Speak Silence Faults Silent Graves Merit

Author:Ovid

“talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.”

Littles Social Talking Greater Too Much Conversation Faults Talking Too Much

Book:Book of common sense etiquette

Source: Book of common sense etiquette

“I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.”

Creation Findings Faults Critics Criticise

Author:Michelangelo

“The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.”

People Firsts Persons Shows Faults Ice Lowest Obscurity

Book:Men & Manners

Source: Men & Manners

“None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformity.”

Mind Secret Faults Imperfection Eagles Deformity

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...

“I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.”

Men Pleasure Faults Drawing Pursuit Forbidden Absorbing

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Everyone puts his fault on the Times.”

Faults

Author:George Herbert

“Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.”

Littles Stills Too Much Faults Extremes

Book:The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.”

Mind Whole Moving Spirit Perfect Judging Criticism Faults Wit Surveys Rapture

Book:A Select Collection of Poems: Viz. An Essay on Man; An Essay on Criticism; The Messiah; &c. &c. ... To which are Prefixed, An Account of the Life of the Author

Source: A Select Collection of Poems: Viz. An Essay on Man; An Essay on Criticism; The Messiah; &c. &c. ... To which are Prefixed, An Account of the Life of the Author

“For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.”

Firsts May Children Art First Time Guilt Faults Simplicity Spread Charm Novelty Offspring

Book:The vicar of Wakefield, accentuirt mit Wörterbuche von K.R. Schaub

Source: The vicar of Wakefield, accentuirt mit Wörterbuche von K.R. Schaub

“The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.”

Way Style Greatness Faults Esteem Acquire Lasting

Book:Works: With a Life and Notes

Source: Works: With a Life and Notes

“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.”