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“It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.”

Feels Stills Book Ideas Character Reading Given Judging Reader Easier Thousand Pages Faults Generosity Nails Book Reading

Author:Fay Weldon

“This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.”

Body Essentials Faults Extraordinary Likes Indulge

Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes

“This is my fault. Give me the ball.”

Giving Balls Give Me Faults Nfl

Author:Bronko Nagurski

“Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.”

Source: The Good News of God: Sermons

“Black detraction will find faults where they are not.”

Black Faults

Book:The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger:

Source: The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger:

“Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.”

Children Littles Mother Sleep Rooms Air Scene Findings Our Children Errors Faults Your Children Sunshine Surroundings Confinement Good Nature Scolding Fault Finding

Author:Herbert Spencer

“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

“By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.”

Kind Feelings Gone Virtue Method Faults Seeds Neighbor Mysterious Spokes Gossip Listeners

Author:Margaret Deland

“That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]”

Should Trying Persons Views Fronts Faults Wallets Nemo

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?”

Heaven Cutting Faults Patterns Mutual Torment Reproach

Book:Letters of George Sand

Source: Letters of George Sand

“... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.”

Thinking Want Able Reader Faults Refuse Misunderstood

Book:Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

“Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.”

Findings Perfection Faults Envy

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.”

Eye Desire Views Higher Deserve Perfection Faults Appreciation Merit

Author:John Frederick Boyes

“There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.”

Book Character Grows Sweet Flower Criticism Faults Silent Pleasant Herbs Hounds Perplexed

Book:Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading

Source: Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading

“I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!”

Thinking America Asks Deals Faults Contrary Selling

Author:J. William Fulbright

“Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.”

People Ifs Needs Age Enjoy Minutes Solitude Weakness Prejudice Faults Endure Unreal Aloof Gregarious Sociability

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.”

People Men Wanted Found United States Doors Faults Every Man Misfortunes Admirable Advertisements

Book:Pipers and a dancer

Source: Pipers and a dancer

“I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.”

May Ideas Conscience Shining Faults Merit Silver Bending Nickels

Book:I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner

“I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.”

Whole House Kings Faults France Latin Scotland Spain Guise Confederate

Author:Elizabeth I

“If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.”

Ifs Faults Festivals Extravagance

Author:Aristippus

“This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it's your duty.”

World Trying Country Feelings Duty Faults Activism Changing The World Patriotism Dissent

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?”

Ifs Persons Happens Certain Easy Numbers Quality Style Commitment Forgiving Faults Boring Characteristics Bores Defects Good Quality Endearing

Book:The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel

Source: The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel

“A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.”

Knows Persons Know How Faults Reputation Secure Exposing

Author:Pasquier Quesnel

“If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud.”

People Ifs Two Government Fighting Mistake Responsibility Streets Crime Faults Criminals Educated Making Mistakes Fraud Inadequate Incompetent

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.”

Mind Imagination Faults Ungrateful

Author:Rose Tremain

“Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.”

Should Self Lying Goal Virtue Capable Philosophical Faults Males Latter Forgetfulness Interacting Absorption Self Absorption Interacting With Others Self Forgetfulness

Author:Valerie Solanas

“O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.”

Faults Currents Acknowledge Payment Acknowledgment

Author:Fanny Burney

“But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.”

People Way Years Song Family Virtue Blood My Family Faults Tongue My Way Ashamed Denied Family Life Dialect

Author:Agnes Smedley

“In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.”

Knows Stills Country America Evil Sun Faults Setting Forests Settings Our Country Rising

Book:Nigger

Source: Nigger

“Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.”

Ifs Believe Littles Poet Easier Faults Deeper Contemporary Acknowledge Merit Ashamed Never Quit Suspicious Skeptical

Book:Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997

Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997

“For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.”

Crime Danger Faults Contracts

Author:Thomas Creech

“A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.”

Men Faces Used Lying Failing Honesty Faults Revolutionary Traitor Treachery

Author:Ashraf Dehghani

“It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.”

Faults

Author:Martin Firrell

“Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.”

I Can Creatures Faults Adore Shortcomings

Author:Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

“No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.”

Men Firsts Can Do Fool Depends Friends Bears Faults Every Man Latter Sober Propose Annoyed Madmen Temperance Reciprocal Continuance Mildness

Author:Owen Feltham

“The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.”

Thinking Wise Honest Friends Errors Faults Faithful Flattery Boldness Tainted

Book:Resolves: divine, moral and political

Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political

“I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.”

Men Humans Has Beens Seems Would Be Wanted Energy Christ Forever Trouble Ignorance Messages Crosses Faults Heal Satisfied Appeals Not Sure Spares Redeemer

Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

“In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.”

Stories Novel Faults Charity Exposed Multitudes Craftsmanship

Author:Thea Astley

“I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.”

Thinking Mind I Can Ideas Form Imagination Brain Gone Building Products Faults Finals Improvement Invention Devices Concrete New Ideas My Imagination

Author:Nikola Tesla

“It was easy to blame other people for treating me in ways I didn't like, but now I was seeing that I was the one at fault. The only way you can be mistreated is by allowing yourself to be mistreated, and that was something I did over and over again. Somehow, I needed to find that glimmer of self-respect, buried deep inside, that would allow me to say: I am never going to let that happen to me again. I needed to learn how to stand up for myself in a different way, but I didn't know how.”

People Knows Way Different Self Happens Easy Know How Seeing Needed Blame Faults Different Ways Self Respect Allowing Buried Deep Inside Mistreated

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Feelings Hurt Honest Havens Information Faults Silly Lied Honest Person

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.”

Knows Littles Enough Jobs Half Percent Tired Faults Protection Good Job

Author:Marc Bulger

“If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.”

Ifs Sometimes President Civilization Faults Superiors Barack Visitors President Barack Obama

Author:David Brooks

“None of this seems to affect the leadership, that people don't go out to vote, that they don't feel the need to go vote, that they already feel disenfranchised. It's not just Obama's fault or Clinton's or whomever's, it's all of them, the whole collection of clowns I've had to sit through.”

People Needs Feels Whole Seems Vote Faults Clinton Collections Clown Disenfranchised

Author:Lewis Black

“The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."”

Ifs Thinking World Wells Mother Responsibility Taught Like You Percent Faults

Author:Byron Katie

“Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.”

Thinking Men Self Half Imagine Talent Needed Easier Smart Add Faults Sorry Ill Witty Clever Generosity Satire Speakers Corn Malice Conceit Being Smart Satirical I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Author:James Sharp

“Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.”

Remember Mistake Faults Forgetfulness Forgetful

Book:Versatilities

Source: Versatilities

“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.”

Feels Soul Feet Effects Wings Faults Burden Repentance Relieved

Book:Journal of Eugénie de Guérin

Source: Journal of Eugénie de Guérin

“I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.”

Should Believe Kind Seems Asks Names I Believe Kindness Too Much Faults I Believe In Tolerance Free Will Be Kind Condescension Condescension And

Book:Let Us Consider One Another

Source: Let Us Consider One Another

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