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“The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.”

Men Littles Two Whole Science Lying Universe Path Wise Seeing Fool Lows Errors Former Wheels Latter Regions Lanes Footsteps Lofty Provinces Ruts Two Wheels

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”

Men Stills Would Be Lying Sky Pride Angel Errors Quitting Bless Spheres Abode

Book:The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings

Source: The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings

“Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.”

Soul Lying Sides Loses Bed Errors Despised Truth And Lies Dormitory

Book:Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections

Source: Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections

“NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.”

Mind Action Young Lying Subjects Thousand Models Errors Active Archetype Dormant Power Of The Mind Young Minds

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!”

Feels Should Looks Earth Death Lying Poor Enemy Regret Spring Errors Graves Peaceful Resentment Defects Handful Bosoms Recollection

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

“One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!”

Trying War Light Lying Nations One Day Judgment Errors Folly

Book:Above the battle

Source: Above the battle

“Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.”

Should Lying All Things Errors Dust Call Me Customs Antiques

Author:Brand Blanshard

“In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.”

Lying Rooms Errors Margins

Author:James Geary

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.”

Lying Speak Hurt United Comfort Succeed Errors Heal Hated Telling The Truth Divided Falsehood Multitudes Speak The Truth Stand Alone

Author:Adrian Rogers

“the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!”

World Mind Humans Reason Lying Evil Dark Virtue Ignorance Roots Blind Misery Errors Guides Human Mind Trembling Felicity Bane Human Happiness Human Reason Poisoners

Author:Frances Wright