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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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.
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.
Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; thou read more
Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,
And giv'st access, though secret she retire.
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
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
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.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
