"The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize."
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"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
"We all carry fault within."
"To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets."
"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."
"Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on."
"If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy."
"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
"Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault."
"Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not."
"There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."
"If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these.""
"A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself."
"Excess and deficiency are equally at fault."
"Vikings don't have faults, they have clubs."
"Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault."
"But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure."
"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."
"We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . ."
"Only great men have great faults."