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“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them”
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“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them”
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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.”
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“Blame it on a simple twist of fate.”
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“There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”
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“I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about”
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“Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them”
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“There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to”
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“Pride is the mask we make of our faults”
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“Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 77)
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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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“Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our
own backs.
[Lat., Suus quoque attributus est error:
Sed non videmus, manticae quid in tergo est.]”
Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus) Quotes Source: Carmina (XXII, 20)
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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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“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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“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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“Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: A Fable for Critics (l. 28)
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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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