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Too great haste leads us to error
The smallest errors are always the best
Our understandings are always liable to error. Nature and certainty is very hard to come at; and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense
The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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