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"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."
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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
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"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."
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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."
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"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."
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"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."
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"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
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"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."
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"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."
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"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."
Life
"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."
Emotional
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
Influence
"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
Music
"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on."
Truth
"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
Courage
"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."
Politics
"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."
Man
"When all else is lost, the future still remains."
Future
"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
Talent
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