“In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.” MenLittlesEyeStrongerBlameBlindErrorsFaultsBlindnessSpySpecks Book:Poor Richard's Almanack Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.” IfsWorldLittlesArtProcessImaginationForgetBlameWorks Of ArtAnticipationSelectionAnticipateSimplification Book:The Art of Travel Source: The Art of Travel
“Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.” ShouldMindLittlesHas BeensWholeBrainQuietBlameFaultsAverageExcuseSuperiorsGreat Minds Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.” LittlesSelfPracticeGenerationsHabitSucceedDaughterFairsBlamePossessedJustificationMaximsPropensityHereditarySelf Justification Author:Maria Edgeworth