“Life, like war, is a series of mistakes; and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that; but he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes.”

— Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 117.

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