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Faults Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not…
- Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
- Faults and defects every work of man must have.
- Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
- Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
- Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But…
- Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because…
- That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow…
- There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery…
- The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning…
- The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity…
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
- Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
- Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
- Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
- 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…
- men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
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