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“There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.”

Men Hands Mistake Fellows Excuse Same Mistakes Carelessness

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.”

People Long Age Lasts Grows Mistake Sun Youth Creatures Sight Prejudice Fellows Rose Old Age Twilight Fog Old People Petty Long Day

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.”

“I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes are exaggerated for a theatric stage - you're on a stage you have an audience of 2500 or 3000 people: you need to project the feelings, the emotions it's heightened, and people mistake it for a personal anger but it's more dissatisfaction, disappointment and contempt for these things we've settled for.”

“You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two years. And, the Lord willing, that's exactly what I intend to do.”

Ifs Knows Want Years Made Two Age Together Next Energy Deals Mistake Lord Willing Perspective Fellows Accomplish Plenty Two Years

Author:Ronald Reagan

“We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.”

Mistake Citizens Reflection Fellows Wounds Brushes Presumption Good Faith Learning From Our Mistakes

Author:Barack Obama

“If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.”

Ifs Men Heart Made Waiting Prayer Mistake Honest Fellows Word Of God Instruction Lacking Declaration Fellow Man Great Mistakes Uprightness

Book:Answers to Prayer

Source: Answers to Prayer

“A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.”

Knows Persons Certain Mistake Know How Stupid Possibility Type Smart Fellows Errors Clever Boundless Idiocy Stupid Person

Book:Iorich

Source: Iorich

“That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.”

Ideas Seems Funny Mistake Humorous Fellows

Author:Samuel Johnson