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mistake power order
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms. Charles Caleb Colton
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing. Charles Stross
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. Charles Spurgeon
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
defeat might outcome political time together
The outcome might very well be that together with (Berlusconi?s) defeat this time we may also see his disappearance from the political scene. Franco Pavoncello
defeat
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat. Beverly Sills
defeated expect marbles
We always expect to win. If you don't expect it you've defeated yourself. You just let the marbles play out.
defeated
Truth cannot be defeated. Edwin Louis Cole
defeated venison
Venison and venery defeated me. Benjamin Franklin
defeat until
We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy. Thelma Drake
defeated great victors wars
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered. George William Russell
defeat jaws nervous whenever
We're always nervous whenever we play this team, because we've had defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
defeat hope house send
We hope to defeat it in the House and send it back to conference.