#defects

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ↗

— Saint Teresa

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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. ↗

— John Webster

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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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I'm a good person, but with many defects. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#good #good person #i #many #person

Never judge a work of art by its defects. ↗

— Washington Allston

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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. ↗