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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (ch. II)
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Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth;
If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: Retaliation (l. 24)
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them
Benjamin Franklin
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It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.
Buddha
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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
T.S. Eliot
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There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
Jane Austen
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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from
their own faults.]
[Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa
ferenda sunt.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: Epistoloe ad Fratrem (I, 1)
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of
others, and to forget his own.
[Lat., Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci
suorum.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 30)
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Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy;
Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.
Christopher Codrington
Quotes , Source: On Garth's Dispensary
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Men still had faults, and men will have them still;
He that hath none, and lives as angels do,
Must be an angel.
- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,
Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon
Quotes , Source: Miscellanies--On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici (l. 8)
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli
Quotes , Source: Essay on the Literary Character (preface, p. XXIX and vol. I, p. 187)
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
[Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses
qualites.]
Isaac D'Israeli
Quotes , Source: Essay on the Literary Character (preface, p. XXIX and vol. I, p. 187)
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Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the
failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be
the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be
their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout
as a rival.
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Quotes , Source: Guesses at Truth
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His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
Washington Irving
Quotes , Source: The Sketch Book--John Bull
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Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
Ben Jonson
Quotes , Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 2)
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Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those
who denounce what they do themselves.)
[Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?]
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Quotes , Source: Satires (II, 24)
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it:
Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
Marcus Valerius Martial
Quotes , Source: Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 111), (translation by Wright)
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