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