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Her only fault--and that is faults enough-- Is that she is intolerable curst, And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure, That were my state far worser than it is I would not wed her for a mine of gold. - William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (Hortensio at I, ii) Is she not a wilderness of faults and follies? - Richard Brinsley Sheridan God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant." - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there. - Jonathan Swift Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims He who overlooks a fault, invites the commission of another. [Lat., Invitat culpam qui delictum praeterit.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own. [Lat., Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims For tho' the faults were thick as dust In vacant chambers, I could trust Your kindness. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, To the Queen (st. 5) Faults are beauties in a lover's eye. - Theocritus 'Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence. - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester Displaying page 4 of 4 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 [4]
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