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" Faults ? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there ' the man according to God's own heart'? "
The Saturday Magazine - Page 112
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A Book about the English Bible

Josiah Harmar Penniman - Bible - 1919 - 472 pages
...consolation!" l Carlyle said of the Psalms of David: — "On the whole, we make too much of faults. Faults? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible, above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there 'the man according...
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Human Engineering: A Reference Book on the Dynamic Mind Fundamentals ...

Richard H. Mulliner - Success - 1920 - 396 pages
...humbles a man is of more use to him than a good action which puffs him up with pride. — Thomas Wilson. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. — Carlyle. It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as the having overcome them, that is an...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. BYRON— Chude Harold. Canto IV. St. 77. ple, and white, and blue, Which flung from its bells a sweet CARLYLE — Heroes and Hero-Worship. Ch. II. 21 Suus quoque attribute est error: Sed non videmus, mantica:...
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Safeguarding Children's Nerves: A Handbook of Mental Hygiene

James Joseph Walsh, John Ambrose Foote - Child psychology - 1924 - 292 pages
...stranger not my child To smooth his fault I should have been more mild." SHAKESPEARE — Richard III. " The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." CARLYLE — Heroes and Hero Worship. Ch. II. DISCIPLINE AND THE NERVOUS CHILD Careful discipline is...
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Progressive Readings in Prose

Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 392 pages
...even, of Mahomet, if such were never so well proved against him, shake this primary fact about him. On the whole, we make too much of faults ; the details...faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there "the man according...
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Foundations of English Style

Paul Milton Fulcher - English essays - 1927 - 336 pages
...even, of Mahomet, if such were never so well proved against him, shake this primary fact about him. On the whole, we make too much of faults; the details...faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there "the man according...
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The Poetry Corner

Arnold B. Cheyney - Education - 1982 - 128 pages
...is amusing or provokes one to think. Thomas Carlyle wrote an epigram many years ago along this line: The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Try writing some of your own brand of short, witty epigrams. APPENDIX ITEM 45 LIMERICKS — EDWARD...
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And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the ...

Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 552 pages
...ideal. — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. — Confucius The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. — Thomas Carlyle People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them....
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...neither make thyself over wise; why shouldest thou destroy thyself? BIBLE. HEBREW. Erciesiasf«7:16. 3 nother must do it THOMAS CARLYLE (1795-1881). Scottish essayist and historian. Heroes and Hero-Worship, "The Hero as...
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Why Smart People Do Dumb Things: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral ...

Mortimer R. Feinberg, John J. Tarrant - Business & Economics - 1995 - 292 pages
...Starship Enterprise from the killer blasts of the Klingons. Nothing that is not benign gets through. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyte, On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History It takes a certain kind of complex...
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