"When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself."
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"Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults."
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"There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them."
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"My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am."
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"We are at fault for not slaying the Jews."
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"Finding faults is for those with tired minds."
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"They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad"
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"Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song."
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"Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them."
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"At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own."
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"No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances."
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"The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works."
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"There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves."
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"Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues."
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"To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue."
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
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"As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults."
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"Everything is your fault if you're any damn good."
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"Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue."
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"It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity."
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