Trust no friend without faults and love a woman but no angel.
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
It is in our faults and failings not in our virtues that we touch each other and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Let us speak though we show all our faults and weaknesses - for it is a sign of strength to be weak to know it and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously though but incidentally and without premeditation.
I mean for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America including on the right wing?
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance they demand so much attention that a husband and wife concentrating on their children fail to notice each other's faults.
Love has features which pierce all hearts he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Love to faults is always blind always is to joy inclined. Lawless winged and unconfined and breaks all chains from every mind.
If you wish to be loved show more of your faults than your virtues.
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Jealousy is I think the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Since therefore no man is born without faults and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
For all its terrible faults in one sense America is still the last best hope of mankind because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Do not think of your faults still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him and to speak painful truth through loving words that is friendship.
To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
We are people with all the hopes dreams passions and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults or resolution enough to mend them.
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults and everyone sees them they change and everyone looks up to them.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend one human soul whom we can trust utterly who knows the best and worst of us and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.