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Faults Quotes - Page 30

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.34

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

"Margaret Atwood: Writing Philosophy". Margaret Atwood's Waterstone's poetry lecture at Hay On Wye in Wales, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

Strange what love taught you about your faults.

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.335, Scholastic Inc.

No one likes to be pitied for his faults.

Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing

I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults.

Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.174, Penguin

I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.

"Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.