Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it read more

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.]

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and read more

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only read more

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at read more

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

The only source of knowledge is experience

The only source of knowledge is experience

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.