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These failings are always with us, and as I have given one instance of their working in Ben Jonson's epigram and have discussed the matter elsewhere, I shall pass to diseases which are more particularly modern, and with which directness is equally at war. The Greek Genius and its Meaning to us, pp. 74 ff. The richness of the English language is in itself a danger.
Then you want to doll yourself up for well, for the party you're goin' to " "The same morning?" interrupted Mary-'Gusta. Mr. Kron grinned. He was a young man and this was his first trip in that section. His clothes were neither modest nor retiring and he, himself, did not suffer from these failings. Also he prided himself on having a way with the ladies, especially the younger ladies.
I have a large experience of men, but I've never met one to compare with him for all-round goodness and simplicity of heart. We all have our failings, and there are worse things than a little shyness and reserve. If he avoids you like the plague, try to pity him for the loss it entails upon himself, and take no offence! As I said before, it's not a personal matter.
Some suspicion will degrade the testimony of a subject, though he protests that his secret praise should never reach the ear of his sovereign, and some failings seem to place the character of Maurice below the purer merit of his predecessor.
Their lukewarm adherents. Scruples of fugitive deputies and insurgent administrators. They form no central government. They leave military authority in the hands of the Convention. Fatal progress of their concessions. Withdrawal of the departments one by one. Retraction of the compromised authorities. Effect of administrative habits. Failings and illusions of the Moderates.
He was too tolerant of other folk's failings; they said he preached mercy where severity would be more bracing and wholesome; and no doubt they thought that he judged himself as leniently; but they did not know Max. I never knew a man harder to himself. Charitable to others, he had no self-pity; selfish aims were impossible to him.
To ambition, he owed both his greatness and his ruin; with all his failings, he possessed great and admirable qualities, and had he kept himself within due bounds, he would have lived and died without an equal.
Thus Monsieur Ridoux lorded it amongst his curates, younger, handsomer, fresher, more tasty than himself, and eclipsed them by all the brilliancy of his good-sense, his tact, and his experience. He had certainly his little failings!... Who can say that he is exempt from them? But his mind was sound. A good companion, besides, and of a cheerful disposition.
If you ever want your umbrella mended, I know a man who will do it cheap and well. Nasty day, isn't it? Go on! go on!" The general opinion which ranks vanity among the lighter failings of humanity, commits a serious mistake. Vanity wants nothing but the motive power to develop into absolute wickedness. Vanity can be savagely suspicious and diabolically cruel.
Think well of others and not so well of yourself. Life will flow on peacefully and easily if we are humble; nothing can disturb. Be meek, sweet, and mild tempered. Bear long with the failings and weaknesses of others, carefully considering your own and keeping in mind how you would like to have others bear with you. "And above all these things put on charity; which is the bond of perfectness."
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