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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-- Elbert. G. Hubbard, American write...
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground....
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
The greatest of all mistakes is to think that you have never made any mistakes.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero as a Prophe...
The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is profoundly ignorant.
-- Shaftesbury...
The greatest pleasure--doing what they said couldn't be done.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found out by accident.
-- Charles Lamb...
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-- Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)...

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