So may a glory from defect arise. [ Robert Browning ]
Fine by defect, and delicately weak. [ Pope ]
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment. [ Burke ]
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perception. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. [ Emerson ]
From the day one can not conceal a defect, one exaggerates it. [ Alfred Bougeart ]
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. [ Lowell ]
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. [ Rochefoucauld ]
It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. [ Washington Irving ]
The want of perception is a defect which all the virtues of the heart cannot supply. [ Thoreau ]
The want of belief is a defect which ought to be concealed where it cannot be overcome. [ Swift ]
Thou hast not what others have, and others want what has been given thee; out of such defect springs good-fellowship. [ Gellert ]
Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one. [ Lowell ]
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Collier ]
There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [ Washington Irving ]