Faults Quotes - Page 21

• All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

  Moliere

  Mirrors, Satire, Should

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• I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Honesty, Character

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• The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, Honor, Quality

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• Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time. Always listen to a man when he describes the faults of others. Often times, most times, he's describing his own, revealing himself.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Adversity, Men, Knowing

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• In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Boredom, Employment

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• I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains;
  The punishment is nought; that it is deserved
  Is all the pain.

  Ovid

  Pain, Punishment, Exile

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• The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poetry, Attention, Definitions

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.214

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• More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault.

  Anna Quindlen

  Numbers, Government, Citizens

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• Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.

  William Howard Taft

  Funny, Girl, Mother

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

  Denis Diderot

  Fall, May, Taste

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• I spent years crying in my diary.
  But I finally stopped finding
  fault with myself. We're
  all different, yet the same.

  Jasmine Guy

  Years, Different, Diaries

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• The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth.  The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Success, Responsibility

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Persons, Conditions

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• A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

  Edward Weston

  Lifetime, Bother, Wells

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• Fear is finding fault with the future.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Findings

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• Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Blessed, Seeing

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

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Fall, Men

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.564

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• It's not the skunk's fault that he's a skunk or that he gives off this really bad stink. If I am a skunk, I want to live as a skunk, I want to know what my truth is, to know the person I am without fear.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Giving, Want, Truth Is

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• Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Men

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• I will not tolerate your faults. They are of no use to me.

  Mason Cooley

  Use, Tolerate

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• I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.

  Mason Cooley

  Special, Grudge

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• Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Years, Events

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• If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.

  Norm MacDonald

  Criticism, Bears, Endeavor

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• Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Duplicity, Desire

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• There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Two, Virtue

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