Quotes with faults

  • While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
  • It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
  • Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
  • It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
  • Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
  • There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
  • It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
  • With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
  • It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
  • To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
    ― Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Antisthenes Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
    ― Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Theocritus Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.
    ― Theocritus
    Greek poet
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  • Joseph Addison Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
    ― Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Confucius The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
    ― Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
    ― Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Horace While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
    ― Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Benjamin Franklin A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Mario Puzo A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.
    Source: De Peetvader p. 391
    ― Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Helen Rowland A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ''personal characteristics.''
    ― Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Achille Poincelot A woman's faults, be they never so small, cast a shadow which all her virtues cannot dispel.
    ― Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • Walt Whitman All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
    ― Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
    ― Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • George William Curtis Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
    ― George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Ben Johnston Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
    ― Ben Johnston
     
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  • Randolph Churchill Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
    ― Randolph Churchill
    British journalist and writer (1911 - 1968)
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  • Matthew Prior Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
    ― Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
    ― Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Thomas Carlyle Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
    ― Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
    ― Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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