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.
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Related It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov... LORD MELBOURNE Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary,... PAUL BRUNTON Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to
indulge in them; a man cannot tell his... UNKNOWN The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all... CONFUCIUS Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. HENRY WARD BEECHER The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. T... BRENDA SUTTON ROSE It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of oth... BUDDHA Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. FRANCOIS FENELON Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. FÉNELON Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. FRANCOIS FTNELON The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The essence of a man is found in his faults. FRANCIS PICABIA Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those bel... VOLTAIRE Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those b... VOLTAIRE Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those b... VOLTAIRE A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks he... FULTON J. SHEEN It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ... HENRY WARD BEECHER You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,... SUDHIR KAKAR A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them a... HELEN ROWLAND A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them... HELEN ROWLAND A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them a... HELEN ROWLAND Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource prid... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more ri... WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is... THIRUVALLUVAR Man has become less rational than his own objects, which now run ahead of him, so to speak, organizi... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and... THOMAS A KEMPIS Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. STEPHEN D'MELLO Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man's faults all conform to his type of mind. Observe his faults and you may know his virtues. CHINESE PROVERBS It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others,
and to forget his own. UNKNOWN Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? DR. LAURENCE J. PETER It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth;
If he had any faults, he has left us in dou... OLIVER GOLDSMITH When man loves as a biological hypostasis, he inevitably excludes others: the family has priority in... JOHN D. ZIZIOULAS If a man looks after the faults of others, and is always inclined to be offended, his own passions w... FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys... RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. FRANCIS BACON Does that new man in your life call his ex "a slut", "a whore", "a bitch", "psycho" , "crazy", "a nu... MIYA YAMANOUCHI Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were b... PAT BUCHANAN There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. SAMUEL BECKETT Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Phi... WILLIAM LAW Love your friend with his faults. ANONYMOUS When a leader is too temperamental in a case he faults his judgment and loses the confidence of his ... ETC WANYANWU How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which int... ADAM SMITH Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults INDIAN PROVERB If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. THOMAS GRAY Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD For, though every man has sin in him seminally, yet there are some sins which by nature he is more i... CHRISTOPHER LOVE Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which He does not often do, His motivatio... JAMES C. DOBSON Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, an... SYDNEY SMITH The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist,... WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with w... SAMUEL JOHNSON Forgiveness is only possible,when we learn to overlook human errors & faults through the eyes of lov... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the ... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER This civilization is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature,... VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has be... JOHN STUART MILL He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. JOHN MILTON Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others th... CHINESE PROVERBS Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the though... MOLIERE Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ord... FULTON JOHN SHEEN Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others... CHINESE PROVERB The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elabor... HERMANN EBBINGHAUS The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of ... G.K. CHESTERTON His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities. WASHINGTON IRVING Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is s... EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb
put his head through the window a... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruit... HENRY MILLER All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself / civilization, in a word is the fruits... HENRY MILLER Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco... LORD CHESTERFIELD Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so! CLARA SCHUMANN Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature. HENRY MILLER I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. SOURCE UNKNOWN I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. DANIEL WEBSTER A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask,... JAMES FENTON Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in the remonstrances we make to those who are guilt... JEREMY TAYLOR The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the natio... GEORGE JACKSON F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined tha... NICHOLAS SPARKS Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is depend... JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish... W.H. AUDEN I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pi... BEN SHAHN Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, ... PAULO COELHO If a faithful account was rendered of man's ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowle... PAUL HENRI THIRY D'HOLBACH I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that t... EMILE ZOLA It is better to correct your own faults than those of another. DEMOCRITUS Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religi... ERNEST RENAN The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divi... RAMANA MAHARSHI Love has a certain element of tenderness, which alone pierces through the heart and binds us more in... JOCELYN SORIANO
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