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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

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Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

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To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

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A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

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The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

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Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

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The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

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To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

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Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

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It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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