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Suffering brings experience.
Author: Aeschylus
Source: Agamemnon (185)
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Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body,--but we cannot die,
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,--
Lo, all things can be borne!
Author: Elizabeth Akers Allen ("Florence Percy")
Source: Endurance
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By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering.
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Author: Roger Ascham
Source: Schoolmaster
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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Author: Roger Ascham
Source: Schoolmaster
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Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy, a proverb quoted by him in the introduction
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Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Corsair (canto I, st. 1)
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A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. VII, last st.)
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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.
Author: George Crabbe
Source: The Borough (letter VII, l. 47)
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In her experience all her friends relied,
Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
Author: George Crabbe
Source: Parish Register (pt. III)
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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.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Paradiso (XVII, 58)
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Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Oration--The American Scholar
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We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary
as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects, Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic
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Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.
Author: Matthew Green
Source: The Spleen (l. 312)
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the
lamp of experience.
Author: Patrick Henry
Source: in a speech at the Virginia Convention
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You can't step twice into the same river.
Author: Heraclitus of Ephesus
Source: Cratylus (402a)
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Experience is the teacher of fools.
[Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
Author: Titus Livy
Source: Annales (XXII, 39)
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Among My Books--Shakespeare Once More
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Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]
Author: Manilius (Manlius or Mallius) (Marcus or Caius)
Source: Astronomica (I, 90)
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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.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 807)
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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.
Author: John Boyle O'Reilly, LL.D.
Source: Rules of the Road
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Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
Author: John Boyle O'Reilly, LL.D.
Source: Rules of the Road
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
experimenta.]
Author: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (II, 5, 5)
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Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you
get when you don't.
Author: Pete Seeger
Source: Loose Talk, by L. Botts
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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Author: Minna Antrim
Source: None
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Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Author: Max Frisch
Source: None
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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Author: Jim Horning
Source: None
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Author: F P Jones
Source: None
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Author: Oscar Levant
Source: None
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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Author: Alice James
Source: None
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Author: Bette Davis
Source: None
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Source: None
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Author: James Boswell
Source: None
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Author: Rodin
Source: None
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Author: Vernon Sanders Law
Source: None
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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
Author: J A Froude
Source: None
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Author: Albert Camus
Source: None
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Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
Author: Dr Thomas Dooley
Source: None
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None
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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.
Author: Helen Keller
Source: None
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Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Author: Michel de Montaigne
Source: None
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Author: Edward R Murrow
Source: None
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Source: None
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Author: James Boswell
Source: None
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Author: Rodin
Source: None
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: None
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Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
Author: Russell R McIntyre
Source: None
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