Index — Chapter FATHER <i>to</i> FAULTS (Part 2 of 2)

O that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

Shakespeare.—Coriolanus, Act II. Scene 1. (Menenius to Brutus.)

In other men we faults can spy,
And blame the mote that dims their eye,
Each little speck and blemish find;
To our own stronger errors blind.

Gay.—Fable XXXVIII. Line 1.

’Tis a meaner part of sense
To find a fault than taste an excellence.

Rochester.—An Epilogue, Line 6.

FAULTS.—None, none descends into himself, to find
The secret imperfections of his mind:
But every one is eagle-ey’d to see
Another’s faults, and his deformity.

Dryden’s Persius.—Sat. IV.

Is she not a wilderness of faults and follies?

Sheridan.—The Duenna, Act I. Scene 2.

Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler, sister woman;
Tho’ they may gang a kennin’ wrang;
To step aside is human.

Burns.—Address to the Unco Guid, Verse 7.

They, then, who of each trip the advantage take,
Find but those faults which they want wit to make.

Dryden.—Prol. to Tyrannie Love, Line 24.

O wad some pow’r the giftie gie us,
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
And foolish notion.

Burns.—To a Louse.

Breathe his faults so quaintly,
That they may seem the taints of liberty:
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 1. (Polonius to Reynaldo.)

Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.

Ben Jonson.—Catiline, Act III. Scene 2.