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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a
fool.
[Lat., Cujusvis read more
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a
fool.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in
errore perseverare.]
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.
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.
In the great right of an excessive wrong.
In the great right of an excessive wrong.
Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you read more
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.
