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When man becomes omniscient and omnipotent there'll be no errors in his judgment or his performance and not before. Meanwhile we're all in the soup of fallibility together. I I'm not much at expressing myself elegantly: but I trust I'm sufficiently forcible," smiled Buller. "Er will you meet me at four at my office?
It is strange that political and controversial literature, so rich in chameleons, asses in lions' skins, and other figures for human fallibility and stupidity, should not contain a few, just a few, varieties of the blushing proteus. The visitor has now examined all the wall cases of the second room; and his way again lies to the west.
He had touched earth, he reflected tragically. Never again would his fairyland be quite the same. Man talked of his flaws. His fallibility they said was monumental. There was Adam who had morbidly incited him to a notebook, a damnable, pervasive notebook which he tried in vain to ignore.
There can be little doubt that he attributes to the bad government of the Demos many evils which were really due to extraneous causes or to the mere fallibility of human nature. Still his analysis of democracy is one of the most brilliant things in the history of political theory.
"Ben had always been dictatorial before; but after that, I had only to smile to remind him of his fallibility, and I have been mistress here ever since." So far had I written when your welcome letter arrived. Kate found me this morning sighing over it, pen in hand, ready to reply. She put on her imperious look, and said she forbade my writing, if I grew gloomy over it.
Its blind acceptance seals the resignation of the will and the intellect to effacement and stultification. The argument on this side does not rest on human fallibility. It appeals in its full strength to those who are most confident that they possess truth final and complete.
CLAIRE, sister to de Puysange, a woman of beauty and resolution, of a literal humor. ATTENDANTS, BRIGANDS, and DRAGOONS; and, in the Proem, LORD HUMPHREY DEGGE and LADY MARIAN HELEIGH. First at Dover, thence shifting to Bellegarde-en-Poictesme and the adjacent country. PROEM: More Properly an Apologue, and Treats of the Fallibility of Soap
Now, since matters of life and liberty were in the balance, the primitive denizens of Witch-Face Mountain felt that the admission of Narcissa Hanway's testimony to consideration and credibility evinced an essential defect in the law of the land, and the fallibility of all human reasoning.
A similar false note is struck by any speaker or writer who misapprehends his position or forgets his disqualifications, by newspaper writers using language that is seemly only in one who stakes his life on his words, by preachers exceeding the license of fallibility, by moralists condemning frailty, by speculative traders deprecating frank ways of hazard, by Satan rebuking sin.
In every way, the tempter mortal thought may show us the fallibility of human nature and tempt us to disbelieve in our high ideals. "The forty days' temptation in the wilderness is the soul history of every human being who starts out to lead the life of Jesus.
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