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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Labour is the purgatory of the erring.
That power Which erring men call Chance.
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.
I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.
The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil
All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.
God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity.
