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Letter "D" » defects
«Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.»
Author: Francois Fenelon
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
defects, excellent, General will, govern, in general, observers, perceive, slightest, The Observer
«Humility is not my forte, and 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»
Author: Margaret Halsey
| About:
Humility
| Keywords:
characters, defects, engaging, forte, gradually, harmless, length, mild, milder, mildest, shortcoming, shortcomings, staring, to seem
«[George] Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every man, whether he comes from Washington State, or Los Angeles, or Texas, when he comes and walks these city streets and begins to feel that this is my city; I own a part of this Capital, and I envy for the time being those who are able to spend their time here. I quite admit that there are defects in the system of government by which Congress is bound to look after the government of the District of Columbia. It could not be otherwise under such a system, but I submit to the judgment of history that the result vindicates the foresight of the fathers.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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Angeles, Columbia, defects, district, districts, District of Columbia, Federal, for the time being, George Washington, system of government, The District, tingle, tingled, tingles, tingling, vindicate, vindicated
«At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.»
«Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
benignant, defects, instrument of torture, originally, pointing, pointing out, procreate, Procreates, procreating, repose, The Passions, turning point
«Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
defects, individualities, individuality| Occasions:
T-Shirt
«Children have but little charity for one another's defects»
«Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| Keywords:
constancy, defects, endures, indiscreet, partaken, partakes, partake in, partaking, tamely
«All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
conservatives, defects, halt, invalid, invalids
«Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible,»
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