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men perfection great-expectations
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection. Charles Dickens
men years practice
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
men self world
It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
men glasses light
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
men tongue habit
The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
men words-of-wisdom daylight
He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
men sea waiting
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
men way aging
I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
faults
He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him. Charles Spurgeon
faults world persons
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault. Charles Dudley Warner
faults credit talent
Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them. Charles Marion Russell
faults debt lenders
It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender. Bernard Levin
faults rich fairs
Faults that are rich are fair. William Shakespeare
faults actors measure-for-measure
Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
faults virtue
Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults. Edgar Cayce
faults virtue glorify
Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.
faults innocence innocent
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults. Edmund Waller