"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

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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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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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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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"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."

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Bryant McGill, American Poet

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Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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."

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error."

"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."

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."

"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."

"We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past."

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."

"Don't be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth."

"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."

Explore more quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."

"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."

"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."

"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."

"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it."

"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."

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