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Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.
Where's your sense of misadventure?
A worthy old scholar, criticising the king's penmanship, pointed out a fault. He, smiling, erased the word, but when the critic was gone, began to restore it, remarking that it was right, but it was better to spoil paper than the self-confidence of an old man.
stupid, overbarbering, possesive, fur ball
It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions ...
I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished.
'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence ...
I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.
Man errs as long as he strives.
Conspicuous by his absence.
To err is human - but it feels divine.
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
Fond of those hives where folly reigns,
And cards and scandal are the chains,
Where the pert virgin slights a name,
And scorns to redden into shame.
Averse alike to flatter, or offend;
Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.
No offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.
Honorable, Bernita mine. To look after those who can't look after themselves, to attend to duty rather than convenience. You have reminded me of what honor requires, and I'm grateful. That last word - grateful - wasn't one Nita heard very often.
...[A] rebel who is inaccurate and mad is a traitor.
suspected in the
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you ... "
... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible.
"Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?
Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.
What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gipsy obscenity? What are you doing?
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.
A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
clever wasn't the same as honest. Ferrier
Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!
To err is human. To errah is Kennedy.
We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.
Bad spellers of the world untie!
CRITIC OR CITRIC?
Anagram of ordinary passing judgement on talented
Kamil Ali
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here
Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie?
My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.
DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
There being some of them who had still quite natural manners, which in a courtier is, I need hardly say, a very grave offence.
Let what I here set down meet with correction or applause, it shall be of equal welcome and utility to me [...]And yet, always submitting to the authority of their
censure, which has an absolute power over me, I thus rashly venture at everything.
O heresy in fair, fit for these days,
A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.
A rebel without a clue.
To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine
Adroitly that there was
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse.
Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write
Rashly,
And praised be rashness for it
let us know,
Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
I am very proud, revengeful,
ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have
thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,
or time to act them in.
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.
Oh, Frances, for somebody so clever you can be awfully dull sometimes. Don't you know the sort of mistake I mean? I was going to have a
Few from too near inspection fail to lose, Distance on all a mellowing haze bestows; And who is not indebted to that aid Which throws his failures into welcome shade?
I am very defective in all duties ... In prayer I wander and am formal ... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.
Fallible, adj.
I was hurt. Of course I was hurt. But in a perverse way, I was relieved that you were the one who mad the mistake. It made me worry less about myself.
It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.
Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Acknowledge your folly or depart from my dominions.
veiled insubordination that he
But I believe in luck - in destiny, if you will. It is your destiny to stand beside me and prevent me from committing the unforgivable error."
"What do you call the unforgivable error?"
"Overlooking the obvious.!
The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart ...
Did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence - applied
...but I desire i may no further be harassed, and i recommend it to you to retire to your chamber, and to endeavour to adopt a more retional conduct, than that yielding to fancies, and to a sensibility, which, to call it by the gentlest name, is only a weakness.
Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the greatest indignation when, as often, good judges are flattered by the charm of social entertainments into an approbation which is a mere a pretence.
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
Explanation is a well-dressed error.
To be human is erroneous.
Lokeij whistled. "Make the king's warriors vanish if
they come ... what a deceitful turtledove you are."
Aly smiled at the sky. "Oh, don't,"she replied in the
tones of a flirtatious court lady. "Stop, I insist. Your
flattery makes me blush.
Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.
abysmally beshitted.
Unfaithfully our, Time
To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.
Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.
a creature of impulse.
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane ...
I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor ... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
To err is human. To admit it, a blunder.
Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.
What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
Your Abnegation is showing,
Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.
A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.
REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance ... But the truth will prevail.
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.
obsequious courting of the mob
Misgive that you may not mistake.
All human beings err, but they err frequently and in predictable, patterned ways.
Such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.
Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
Vulgar of manner, overfed, Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night. - Byron RufusNewton
Sorry is a callous inadequacy.
Avuncular authority. In an abrupt, an almost peremptory letter, he laid his case,