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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old read more
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence read more
To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love
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 a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.