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Category: Defeates and Mistakes

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1. "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

2. "To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish."

Benjamin Franklin

3. "Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and The Sea"

Quotations about: Human

4. "We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Egoism

5. "Resign, v. A good thing to do when you are going to be kicked out."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

6. "What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"

Quotations about: Human

7. "If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

8. "Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim."

Graham Greene, "The Heart of the Matter"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

9. "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

10. "It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. "

William Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

11. "The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

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