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Show Exposure of One's Weaknesses. A special weakness of a man is exposed ex-posed by his indiscriminately accusing others of the same defect When a person, per-son, in criticising the character or disposition dis-position of others, applies with a certain blind persistency one or two common faults to them all, now perchance hitting the mark and eow flying far wide of it, we may be sure that these very faults are possessed by the critic in a marked degree, though they are often in a measure meas-ure concealed by the complications of his own character. They seem to stand before his mind's eye as glasses of various colors, giving corresponding hues to whatever is viewed through them, as he who looks at the sky through a colored window will seo it red, yellow, green or otherwise, other-wise, as the case may be. One who de-gires'to de-gires'to rid himself cf faults will do well to scrutinize himself in this respect, and if he finds a tendency to harp on some particular weakness of human nature he may feel assured that there he can apply the pruning knife. Xew York Ledges |