"An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes."
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"Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error."
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"The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed."
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"It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift."
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"I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered."
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"We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study."
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"...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew."
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"Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole."
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"False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes."
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"...don’t judge your future based on others’ mistakes."
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"It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions."
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"Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay."
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"Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one."
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"Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance."
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"Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having."
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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
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"The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything"
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"The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err."
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"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued."
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"Delay is preferable to error."
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