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"Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."
"Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."
The only source of knowledge is experience
The only source of knowledge is experience
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.
Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
To show the world what long experience gains,
Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;
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To show the world what long experience gains,
Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;
But at life's outset to inform mankind
Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
