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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary
as the shadows fall, or read more
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary
as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
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
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
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!
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
