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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain. -- Oliver Goldsmith
I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information. -- Mindy Kaling
A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. -- William Wordsworth
An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh. -- R. H. Tawney
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand? -- George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother. -- Saint Augustine
It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them. -- Epictetus
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment. -- Fanny Burney
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. -- Abraham Lincoln
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. -- Richard Whately
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 -- Mark Twain
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools. -- Alexander Pope
The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it. -- Karl Popper
Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree. -- Jane Swisshelm
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. -- J. C. Ryle
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. -- Blaise Pascal
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart. -- Mark Twain
Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy. -- Hosea Ballou
Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, the sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependent solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals. -- Sarah Moore Grimke
Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude. -- William Dean Howells
[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets. -- Ida Tarbell
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Labour is the purgatory of the erring. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
That power Which erring men call Chance. -- John Milton
The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring--thus he erred himself. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more. -- Michelangelo
The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race. -- Henry David Thoreau
Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept. -- William Dean Howells
On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to the adult mind. -- Miranda Neville
Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove. -- William Wordsworth
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know? -- George Eliot
Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man -- H. Rider Haggard
Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave;Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen,Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save. -- Fanny Crosby
I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children. -- John Larson
I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children. -- John Larson
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. -- George Bernard Shaw

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