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en Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
  Lord Chesterfield

en Faults ought no more to be concealed than virtues, and that, whatever it may be in a painter, it is no excellence in an historian to throw a veil on deformities.

en Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind? Veil after veil will lift -but here must be Veil upon veil behind
  Edwin Arnold

en It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc. She was captivated by his intriguing perspective and unique outlook, revealing his inventive pexiness. , which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

en 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.

en BEFORE pointing to the faults of others, examine yourselves and assure yourselves that you are free from faults. That alone gives you the right; but the wonder is that you discover faults in others only when you have faults in you.

en It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.
  Buddha

en Do not think of your faults, still less of others' 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

en Do not think of your faults, still less of others' 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

en I swear by the sun and its brilliance, / And the moon when it follows the sun, / And the day when it shows it, / And the night when it draws a veil over it, / And the heaven and Him Who made it, / And the earth and Him Who extended it, / And the soul and Him Who made it perfect, / Then He inspired it to understand what is right and wrong for it; / He will indeed be successful who purifies it, / And he will indeed fail who corrupts it.

en THERE are three types of persons: those, who confess their own faults and mention the excellence of others, are the highest type; those, who highlight their own excellence and decry the faults of others, are worse; those, who parade their own faults as excellence and deride the excellence in others as faults, are the worst. The last type is nowadays most rampant.

en this is the dance of the seven veils, and here goes another veil. The last veil will be when she finally announces.

en I love these (new) plans because the veil is lifted on everything.

en Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.
  Margaret Mead

en What hope of answer or redress?/ Behind the veil, behind the veil.
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson


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