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    Some positive persisting fops we know,
    Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
    But you with pleasure own your errors past,
    And make each day a critique on the last.

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Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind.
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Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind.
What error leads must error.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Errors Quotes,
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Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

by Andrew V. Mason Found in: Errors Quotes,
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Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error

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So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
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So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Errors Quotes,
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When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right.
[Fr., Quand tout le monte a read more

When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right.
[Fr., Quand tout le monte a tort, tout le monde a raison.]

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All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error

by Mahatma Gandhi Found in: Errors Quotes,
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To err is human.

To err is human.

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While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err.
[Ger., Es irrt der Mensch read more

While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err.
[Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.]

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right read more

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
[Lat., Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias,
scio quam cum istis vera sentire.]

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