A Quote by Alexander Pope

Never find fault with the absent. — © Alexander Pope
Never find fault with the absent.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
I find no fault in Him."...You can find fault in anyone else, but you can find no fault in Jesus. Holy, harmless, undefiled, sinless: there He is! Christ is God's way to man; Christ is man's way to God. Christ is the true Jacob's ladder. By Him the penitent sinner, the believing soul, the redeemed child of God may come unto the Father and enter into the house of many mansions.
There are a lot of people who can't find housing, who worry about the future, and that insecurity and precarity in their own lives is being exploited by some politicians who are using it to divide us by saying, 'hey it's the fault of new Canadians, it's the fault of refugees, it's the fault of Muslims.'
Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.
Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.
One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.
He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.
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