455 Quotes About Faults

  • Author Paul Brunton
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    Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

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  • Author Louisa May Alcott
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    You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how. I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

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  • Author Sabina Nore
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    Admit perceived flaws, perceived faults, admit everything.Everything is darker, heavier, and more burdensome when it is veiled and concealed. The revealing of these little flaws and burdens creates room for freedom, room for a development. It definitely doesn’t guarantee any progress, but it makes it possible.

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