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In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
In her experience all her friends relied,
Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
In her experience all her friends relied,
Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
experimenta.]
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
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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.]
By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering.
Learning teacheth more in one year than read more
By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering.
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
