Quotes with faults

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  • Jean de la Fontaine Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Anna Freud Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Les Brown Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • François Fénelon Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Benjamin Franklin How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
    Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Hazlitt I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Benjamin Franklin I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Sri Sarada Devi I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
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  • Lord George Byron I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Arthur Miller If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Sinclair Lewis In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.
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    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Agnes Repplier In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome 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.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher 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.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Lord Melbourne 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.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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