GEMS OF THOUGHT
CORRECTING MISTAKES. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new thought so fas as they shall appear to be true views.—Abraham Lincoln.
“None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice. —Borrow.
One should watch to know what his errors are; and it this watching destroys his peace in error, should one watch against such a result? He should not—Mary Baker Eddy.
Be not discouraged at broken and spilled resolutions, but to it and to it again!—Coleridge.
You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. —Anon.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. —Pope.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1940, Page 8
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