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    Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
    bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's
    stairs.
    [It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale
    Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle
    Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]

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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

by F P Jones Found in: Experience Quotes,
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Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

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Only so much do I know, as I have lived.

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.

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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a read more

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.rn

by A. E. Housman Found in: Experience Quotes,
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Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

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All life is an experiment.

All life is an experiment.

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Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.

Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.

by Matthew Green Found in: Experience Quotes,
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Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; thou read more

Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,
And giv'st access, though secret she retire.

by John Milton Found in: Experience Quotes,
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Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

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