Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.

Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.

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.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable read more

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but read more

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

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

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of read more

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb.