SMITH, John Pye Quotes
(1774-1851), English theologian
Exemption from mistake is not the privilege of mortals; but when our mistakes are involuntary, we owe each other every candid consideration; and the man who, on discovering his errors, acknowledges and corrects them, is scarcely less entitled to our esteem than if he had not erred.
Self-will is the source and spring of all that envy, malice, bitterness of spirit, malcontentedness and impatience, and of all those dark passions, those inordinate desires and lusts, that reign in the hearts and lives of wicked men.
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