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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
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through read more
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it read more
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.]
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.
The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn
The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn
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.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
