You crystal break, for fear of breaking it:
Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it:
Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

Pride is the mask we make of our faults

Pride is the mask we make of our faults

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.

They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault
seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to read more

They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault
seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from
their own faults.]
[Lat., Ea molestissime read more

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from
their own faults.]
[Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa
ferenda sunt.]

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I
know most faults.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I
know most faults.

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
[Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas read more

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
[Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses
qualites.]