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Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.
Madeleine L'EngleThe most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.
John H AugheyA rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
Abraham VergheseBe like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
RumiI can forgive a manโs past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like itโs his religion.
Nicole WilliamsThere is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.
Orville DeweyI am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.
Adrienne MonnierWho mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
Oliver GoldsmithIn vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
ConfuciusI never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.
Joseph AddisonNever talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
Swami VivekanandaThere are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.
Hannah HartAmong those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.
Samuel JohnsonWe are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
Abraham Isaac KookMichael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
Francine RiversSelf-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as our faults with neutrality, we can start to appreciate ourselves as we would a dear friend and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect. To embrace the journey towards our full potential we need to become our own loving teacher and coach. Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings we develop true regard for ourselves and our life will become sacred.
RajneeshNobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
Carol Plum-UcciNo weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.
Samuel JohnsonIf we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAppearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.
Robert GreeneWhosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
VoltaireBetter the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
Billy BartyI think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.
Bradford WintersOne of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.
Ellen Swallow RichardsImpatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.
Isobelle CarmodyJealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene TierneyThere are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart
Gautama BuddhaWhen we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.
Pope Agapetus IRemember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults. He has always known everything about you that you are just now finding out, and he chose you on purpose for himself.
Joyce MeyerI have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.
Benigno Aquino, Jr.sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.
Maria Edgeworth