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«That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| Keywords:
ache, ached, advance, causes, commence, commenced, commences, darkness, error, fill, gladness, happen, imperfection, improve, on trial, pass, pass through, reach, the darkness, The Light, The Trial, Trials, trial and error, triumph, yield, yield up
«One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.»
«The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
achievement, actually, again and again, arena, at best, at least, at worst, bad blood, best-known, blood, cold, credit, credited, crediting, credits, daring, defeat, devotion, devotions, effort, enthusiasms, error, errs, fails, greatly, high, in a higher place, in cold blood, in good taste, in the end, marred, short, shortcoming, souls, spends, strives, sweat, sweated, sweating, sweats, tasted, The Great, timid, to a higher place, triumph, valiantly, victory, worst, worthy| Occasions:
Olympic
«None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
acknowledge, acknowledges, bred, confess, error, fault, The WELL, well-bred
«Senator Kerry assures us that he's the one to win a war he calls a mistake, an error, and a diversion. But you can't win a war if you don't believe in fighting.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
assures, calls, diversion, diversions, error, fighting, in-fighting, Kerry, one to, senator, The Senators
«Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
arts, error, exposed, Nine Lives, nine times
«Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Errors,
Truth
| Keywords:
error, Truth Hurts
«The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Achievement,
Day,
Success
| Keywords:
achievement, committed, error, flounder, floundering, flounders, matters, range, ranged, ranging, The Range
«Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
agents, effectual, error, free agent, Free agents, Free Inquiry, inquiries, inquiry, The Agent
