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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. |
| by Alexander Pope |
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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.- John Ruskin
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
I am always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I do not get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
