#defect

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#century #defects #english #great #index

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. ↗

— Herodotus

#correct #defects #few #few things #happen

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#care #comforts #defect #desires #finds

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

#attain #cannot #commands #defect #degrees

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#defect #depends #grasping #judgment #many

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#among #christian #defects #fundamentalists #hundred

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. ↗

— John Major

#clever #could #defect #half #many

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#love #person #qualities #reason #sometimes

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#his #less #lovable #man #may