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But if you keep your heart full of love, your mind clear of distrust, and your lips free from faultfinding, and if you pray for guidance and light upon your way, I am sure you cannot miss the course. To Miss Gladys Weston Who Faces the Necessity to Earn a Living
Her dark eyes were somber, her brows were lowered and drawn together. The slipshod informality of the meal, the constant faultfinding of the hostess, made it something of a trial. Lorelei was not sorry when it was over and Lilas took her to look at the vacant flat.
"There isn't sun enough in this flat to keep a geranium alive," grumbled Miss Adams, who seemed determined to be lonely and faultfinding. Mary Rose sighed. "Of course, no one can have the sun all the time," she said gently, as if to excuse old Sol for not lingering longer in Miss Adams' small apartment.
I suspect, on the contrary, that there are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned. Indiscriminating irony and faultfinding are just sumphishness, and that is all.
Accordingly there were carping faultfinding, and resistance even defeat on every measure concerning the Prince brought before the Lords and Commons. The accusation of disloyal retaliation was made against the Tories.
Not his the grudging and faultfinding temper that besets the lesser man when he comes to write of his contemporaries! Full of generous honor for what he thought good and honest work, however faulty, his praise kindled and his blame no less.
She came to America at 17. After arriving here she has seemed low spirited, cranky and faultfinding. She often complained of indefinite stomach trouble and headaches; when at home she often had a cloth around her head. The informant recalled that she said, “I wish I could get sick for a long time and get either cured or die.” However, she worked.
Nor are there any birds in Africa, or among the Indian Isles, more exquisite in colour than these miniature warblers, showing their gold and green, their orange and black, their blue and white, against the dark background of the rhododendron thicket. But how seldom we put a cup of pleasure to our lips without a dash of bitters, a touch of faultfinding.
We must recognize once for all that this world is not the world of our dreams, and cease to be so pathetically surprised and hurt when it falls short of them. Were we to be rebellious at life for not being built after the pattern of our ideals there would be no limit to our faultfinding.
When he awakens into activity, the outer man will be transformed and renewed. The Sin-covering Eye On no subject are the Bahá’í teaching more imperative and uncompromising than on the requirement to abstain from faultfinding.
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