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"It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next."
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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."

"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."
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"Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two."


"The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty."


"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another."


"Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing."


"It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next."
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