"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value."
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"Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct."
"We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone."
"Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it."
"Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness."
"A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers."
"My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster."
"Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones."
"Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything."
"The fault is in the system and not in the men."
"I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools."
"A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault."
"The downside is, if somebody doesn't like it, then it's like "oh my god, ok its really your fault.""
"Less shame a greater fault would palliate."
"I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish."
"That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault."
"To copy faults is want of sense."
"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense"
"Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still."
"It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards."