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Letter "I" » infirmity
«It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.»
Author: Dale E. Turner
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About:
Character,
Errors,
Mistakes,
Self-respect
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«Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.»
«Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.»
«I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring»
«The desire for fame is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise»
«Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.»
«That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones»
«We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.»
Author: Seneca
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About:
Passion,
Virtue
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Keywords:
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