ERROR ETERNITY
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues.
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Errare humanus est.
To err is human.
MelchiordePolinac—Anti-Lucretius. V. 58.
Gilbertus Cognatus—Adagia. Seneca—
Bk. IV. Declam. 3. Agam, 267. Other
forms of same found in Demosthenes—De
Corona. V. DC. Euripides—Hippolytus.
615. Homer—Iliad. IX. 496. Lucan—
Demon. 7. Marcus Antoninus. IX. 11.
Menander—Fragments. 499. Plautus—
Merc. II. 2. 48. Severus op Antioch—
Ep. I. 20. Sophocoss—Antigone. 1023.
Theognis. V. 327. Humanum fuit errare.
St. Augustine—Sermon 164. 14. . . .
possum falli, ut homo. Cicero—Ad Attir
cum. XIII. 21. 5. Cujusvis hominis est
errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare. Cicero—PhiMpics. XII. 2. 5.
(Same idea in his De Invent. II. 3. 9.)
Erasse humanus est. St. Jerome—Epistolce. LVII. 12. Also in Adv. Ruf. III.
33. 36. Nemo nostrum nonpeccat. Homines
sumus, non dei. Petrontos—Satyricon.
Ch. 75. Ch. 130. Decipi . . . humanus
est. Plutarch. Stephanus's ed. Ch.
XXXI. Per humanes, inquit, errotes.
Seneca—Rhetoric. Excerpta ex Controversiis. IV. III. Censen hominem me esse?
erravi. Terence—Adelphi. IV. II. 40.
Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours Ies
meilleures.
The smallest errors are always the best.
Moliere—L'Etourdi. IV. 4.
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| text = <poem>The man who makes no mistakes does not
usually make anything.
Edward J. Phelps. Speech at Mansion House,
London, Jan. 24, 1889, quoting Bishop
W. C. Magee of Peterborough, in 1868.
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| text = For to err in opinion, though it be not the
part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch—Morals. Against Colotes the Epicurean.
Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.
Poph—Essay on Criticism. Pt. III. L. 9.
When people once are in the wrong,
Each line they add is much too long;
Who fastest walks, but walks astray,
Is only furthest from his way.
Prior—Alma. Canto III. L. 194.
How far your eyes may pierce, I cannot tell;
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
King Lear. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 368.
Purposes mistook
Fall'n on the inventors' heads.
Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 395.
The error of our eye directs our mind:
What error leads must err.
Troilus and Cressida. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 110.
n Shall error in the round of time
Still father Truth?
| author = Tennyson
| work = Love and Duty.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so
rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire—A Philosophical Dictionary. Rivers.
ESTRIDGE
Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had
been,
The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges
were seen.
Drayton—Poly-Olbion. St. 22.
All furnish'd, all in arms;
All plum'd, like estridges that with the wind
Baited, like eagles having lately bath'd.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 97.
ETERNITY
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| text = <poem>Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what new scenes and changes must we
i!
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| work = Cato. Act V. Sc. 1.
Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye will say, it is eternity!
This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there
The columns of the heavenly palaces.
Matthew Arnold—The Tomb.
The created world is but a small parenthesis in
eternity.
Sir Thomas Browne—Works. Bonn's ed.
Vol. III. P. 143.
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| text = <poem>Eternity forbids thee to forget.
| author = Byron
| work = Lara. Canto I. St. 23.
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly
rise
Up between two eternities!
Cowley—Ode on Life and Fame. L. 18.
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| text = <poem>Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last.
Cowley—Davideis. Bk. I. L. 360.
Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time,
but time is as a short parenthesis in a long
period.
Donne—Book of Devotions Meditation 14.
(1624)
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| text = <poem>Summarum summa est asternum.
The sum total of all sums total is eternal
(meaning the universe).
Lucretius—De Rerum Natura. III. 817
AlsoBk. V. 362.
