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Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Experience by itself is not science.
Experience by itself is not science.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and read more
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
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.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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.
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.