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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
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.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
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
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs
What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.