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Whatever it be, do it heart and soul, and make it your finest work. 219 There lies the method at once to silence fault-finders and to minister help to your own difficulties.
Memorabilia 2007
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Him I call indeed a Brahmana who is tolerant with the intolerant, mild with fault-finders, and free from passion among the passionate.
The Dhammapada 2003
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If a visual scan had been installed, H'daen played for its lenses by starting to work, in a most realistic fashion, with various electronic probes and fault-finders on the reader which had plainly "gone wrong."
The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000
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If a visual scan had been installed, H'daen played for its lenses by starting to work, in a most realistic fashion, with various electronic probes and fault-finders on the reader which had plainly "gone wrong."
The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000
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Marry these other pleasaunt fault-finders, who will correct the Verbe, before they understande the Nowne, and confute others knowledge, before they confirme their owne, I would have them onely remember, that scoffing commeth not of wisedome; so as the best title in true English they get with their meriments, is to be called good fooles: for so have our grave forefathers ever tearmed that humorous kinde of jesters.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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In fact, these two fault-finders appeared to have been won over from their most unpleasant habits by the changes at the Home, which went to prove that Colonel Gresham was not wholly wrong.
Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd
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'Uncle Peter' is generic -- a polite lumping together of my chronic fault-finders within the family and without.
The Henchman Mark Lee Luther
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But it is plain these facile fault-finders knew no more of its inner circle -- and for its resident society only is any city responsible -- than they did of the court of the Grand Turk.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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Under this head come the parents who interfere needlessly with their children's ways when different from their own, the breakers-up of love-affairs, the fault-finders, the militantly religious, all that great multitude of men who with prayer and tears have felt it their duty to override others 'wills and impose their codes upon the world.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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Marry, these other pleasant fault-finders, who will correct the verb, before they understand the noun, and confute others 'knowledge before they confirm their own: I would have them only remember, that scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
English literary criticism Various
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