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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
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.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men read more
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
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.
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
