The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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